Note 166 — Chapter VI · Six of the Lesser Great Cathedrals: Bourges, Beauvais, Troyes, Tours, Lyons, Le Mans (continued 2)

W. H. Goodyear, “Architectural Refinements in French Cathedrals,” in Architectural Record, 1904-05, vols. 16, 17; ibid., “Architectural Refinements, a reply to Mr. Bilson,” in Journal of the Royal Institute of British Architects, 3d series, 1907, vol. 15, p. 17; Anthyme Saint-Paul, “Les irrégularités de plan dans les églises,” in Bulletin Monumental, 1906, p. 135.

Professor Goodyear’s theory of intentional asymmetry in mediæval buildings—such irregularities as curves of alignment, vertical curves, want of parallelism in walls and piers, deflection of axis—has not found favor with various French and English archæologists, but much of what he has noted may some day be accepted as self-evident.