Troyes, Basilique Saint-Urbain

It is a compact church with no ambulatory and streamlined reduced plan and elevation that inspired later generations of stripped-down Gothic buildings. The articulation of the building has an astonishing spectacular play of tracery elements, attenuated forms, and the beginnings of double curved tracery. In the western most nave bay, constructed at the end of the 13th-century, we see the streamlined forms of articulation where molding go directly from arches and responds without the intervention of capitals.