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{{Short description|Style of interior church organization}}
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In ], the '''double bay system''' (or '''engaged system''') is the arrangement commonly found in ], where the internal space of ]s is subdivided into three spaces, the ] and two ]s, with aisles having half the width of the nave. This arrangement required the vaults to be twice smaller, so ] in the side isles had to be spaced at half the step of the supports in the nave.{{sfn|Davies|Jokiniemi|2008|p=478}} In ], the '''double bay system''' (or '''engaged system''') is the arrangement commonly found in ], where the internal space of ]s is subdivided into three spaces, the ] and two ]s, with aisles having half the width of the nave. This arrangement required the ]s in the aisles to be twice smaller as well, so ] in the side aisles had to be spaced at half the step of the supports in the nave.{{sfn|Davies|Jokiniemi|2008|p=478}}

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Double-bay systems in Romanesque churches are almost always reflected in the ], usually between ]s and round ]s,{{sfn|Hoey|1989|p=275}} although some researchers see to purely decorative alternation in some buildings, like the ].{{sfn|Hoey|1989|p=273}}


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* {{cite book|last=Davies|first=N.|last2=Jokiniemi|first2=E.|title=Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction|publisher=Elsevier/Architectural Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7506-8502-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4R2Sl_hbTwC&pg=PA478|access-date=2024-12-23}} * {{cite book|last=Davies|first=N.|last2=Jokiniemi|first2=E.|title=Dictionary of Architecture and Building Construction|publisher=Elsevier/Architectural Press|year=2008|isbn=978-0-7506-8502-3|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=r4R2Sl_hbTwC&pg=PA478|access-date=2024-12-23}}
* {{cite journal|last=Hoey|first=Lawrence R.|title=Pier Form and Vertical Wall Articulation in English Romanesque Architecture|journal=Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians|publisher=University of California Press|volume=48|issue=3|year=1989|issn=00379808|jstor=990431|pages=258–283|url=http://www.jstor.org/stable/990431|access-date=2024-12-23}}

==Further reading==
* {{cite thesis |last1=McKinne |first1=Jane Elliott |title=The Church of Sta. Maria and S. Sigismondo in Rivolta d'Adda and the Double-Bay System in Northern Italy in the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries Reference |date=1985 |publisher=] |degree=PhD}}


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Style of interior church organization
A partial plan of a church using the double bay system (Speyer Cathedral). The nave in the center uses large vaults (green), while side aisles use half-sized vaults (blue).The nave exhibits the alternation of supports (black), where the supports carrying the large vault are thicker than the ones only carrying the smaller vaults

In architecture, the double bay system (or engaged system) is the arrangement commonly found in Romanesque architecture, where the internal space of basilicas is subdivided into three spaces, the nave and two side aisles, with aisles having half the width of the nave. This arrangement required the ribbed vaults in the aisles to be twice smaller as well, so supports in the side aisles had to be spaced at half the step of the supports in the nave.

Double bay system inside the Speyer Cathedral includes alternation of supports

Double-bay systems in Romanesque churches are almost always reflected in the alternation of supports, usually between compound piers and round columns, although some researchers see to purely decorative alternation in some buildings, like the Ely Cathedral.

References

  1. Davies & Jokiniemi 2008, p. 478.
  2. Hoey 1989, p. 275.
  3. Hoey 1989, p. 273.

Sources

Further reading

  • McKinne, Jane Elliott (1985). The Church of Sta. Maria and S. Sigismondo in Rivolta d'Adda and the Double-Bay System in Northern Italy in the Late Eleventh and Early Twelfth Centuries Reference (PhD thesis). UC Berkeley.


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