Note 241 — Chapter VIII · Gothic in the Midi (continued 2)

Perpignan’s aisleless cathedral of St. Jean was begun in 1324 and finished, as the century ended, under the kings of Majorca, who then ruled the Roussillon. The transept ends are apsidal below and pentagonal above. Beside it stands an older St. Jean, dedicated in 1025. The see originally was at Elne, where the cathedral was rebuilt in the XI century; lotus leaves are carved on the capitals of its lovely marble cloister (c. 1175). Congrès Archéologique, 1868; and 1906, p. 109, Perpignan; p. 135, Elne; E. de Barthélemy, ” Le cloître de la ville d’Elne,” in Bulletin Monumental, 1857, vol. 23; Bernard Palustre,” Perpignan et ses monuments,” in Revue d’hist. et d’archéol du Roussillon, 1905; Auguste Brutails, ” Notes sur l’art religieux du Roussillon,” in Bulletin archéol. du comité des traveaux hist. et scientifique, 1892, No. 4; 1893, No. 3; P. Vidal, Histoire de la ville de Perpignan (Paris, 1897); P. Vidal et J. Calmette, Le Roussillon (Collection, Les régions de la France), (Paris, L. Cerf, 1909); J. de Gazanyola, Histoire de Roussillon (Perpignan, Alzinc, 1857); Isabel Savory, Romantic Roussillon (London, Unwin, 1919).