T. E. Lawrence’s Undergraduate Dissertation – Page 228

Romanesque (which is not surprising in twelfth century Limoges) and so they are linked in a manner with the more finished machicoulis at Banias in Syria. The box type is found at Pujols, (97) in the hollow of the shallow pilasters at the angles of the polygonal shell. There are too many of them to have been insertions: These are probably earlier than the similar ones at Grec des Chevaliers ; but marvellous- ly inferior. Further they line the walls of Aigues Mortes built for Philip the Fair by an Italian contractor, at inter- vals of from 80 to 100 yards,(which means that they are mostly sham): and there are five on the tour de l'Aubepsin at Montbard in Burgundy, of the early fourteenth century. It is wisest not to propound theories on such evidence. The large buttress-machicoulis are found at Niort, where they are a manifest addition of a later century,(68) at Chateau Gaillard,(?) round the church of Agde of the late twelfth century,(51) on the Papal palace at Avignon,(52) in the walls of Southampton, and at Les Saintes Maries in the Camargue, where every other arch rests on a console(1) This is a most illuminating list - if it proves anything it is that numeri- cally Europe has the advantage over the East : also that they were not the property of one school of architecture or of one country. Of other Byzantine features, the drawbridge pier is to be seen at Tonquedec in Brittany,(13th century) and at Chepstow. (1) On a la console [ou la tale] at Le Puy .