Note 155 — Chapter VI · Six of the Lesser Great Cathedrals: Bourges, Beauvais, Troyes, Tours, Lyons, Le Mans
Reading edition
R. de Lasteyrie, L’église St. Martin de Tours (Paris, 1891); Monsuyer, Histoire de l’abbaye de St. Martin; Henri Martin, Saint-Martin (Collection, L’art et les saints), (Paris, H. Laurens); Ed. Chévalier, Histoire de l’abbaye de Marmoutier (Tours, 1871), 2 vols. There are papers on the church of St. Julien de Tours in the Mémoires de la Soc. archéol. de Touraine, 1909, p. 13, and on St. Martin de Tours, 1907; also in the Bulletin Monumental, 1873, p. 830, on St. Symphorien de Tours. The abbatial of St. Julien, a contemporary of Tours Cathedral, is exceptionally pure Gothic. Its tower is Romanesque and in part dates before 1000.