A Portrait by Rubens of Salomon de Brosse
John Coolidge
I. After ca. 480, a crypt of uncertain form was built within cemeterial edifice (Fig. 2a). II. This succeeded by one three parallel tunnel-vaulted chapels, apparently about 666-670. The addition fourth room to give the shape T 2b) has been linked with circumstances transferral relics in 698. At very latest this T-shaped must have finished 760764.60 In 882 it destroyed during Norman attack. III. Within ruins Merovingian-Carolingian structure temporary after 885 2c). included western sanctuary facing former locus sanctorum; and, from between 915 and 931, horseshoe apse an arcosolium. IV. A new plan (Figs. 2d, e) drawn 934, 942 rebuilt west chamber became confessio abbey church. By 952, behind main apse, two-storied outer constructed around three-celled core crypt. Except for some few alterations, especially thirteenth century, arrangement remained until 1674.
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