Capitolo 12
one hundred years leave their traces on the granite as on other
material, but the granite of Abbot Hildebert would have been standing
surely enough, if the abbot had not asked to too much from him.
He perhaps asked to too much from the archangel, for the thought of the
Clearly The superiority of archangel was the inspiration of its plan. The
the apex of the rose of stone of granite like a sugar-loaf two hundred and
forty feet (73.6 meters) above of the bad level of the sea. Instead of cutting
the top away to give a foundation of sure stone to his/her church that
you/he/she would approximately have sacrificed thirty feet of height, the abbot took
the apex of the stone for his/her level, and on all the sides built out
foundations of masonry to sustain the walls of his/her church. The apex
of the stone the floor of the croisee, the intersection of vase is
and cruise. On this solid foundation the abbot remained the head
weight of the church that was the central tower sustained by the
four great benches that he/she anchors are standing; but from the croisee in the
centre turned to west to the parapet of the base, the abbot he/she filled, the
whole space with masonry and his/her successors they built out still
more distant, up to that of the two hundred feet of ends of lapidary art now in a
perpendicular wall of eighty feet or more. In this space it is a lot
series of rooms, but it is probable that the structure perhaps has it tried
strongly enough to sustain the romantic and light forehead that was usual
in the eleventh century, it didn't have ways in architecture changed in
the great epoch to build, one hundred and fifty years later, when
Abbot Robert the de the thought of corrected Torigny to reconstruct the west
forehead, and he/she builds out two towers on his/her sides. The towers were anybody
beautiful doubt, if one can judge from the towers of Bayeux and
Coutances, but their weight broke the time under, and one
of them you fall in 1300. In 1618 the whole façade started to give way,
and in 1776 not only the façade but also three of the seven spans of