THE NAVE
The length of Gozbert's church is not yet known because the shape
and depth of its apse could not be ascertained. Yet, even on the
basis of facts now available, it appears safe to assume that his church
was shorter by roughly one third than the Church as it is drawn on
the Plan. This suggests that Gozbert held to the mandate of the
axial explanatory title of the Church of the Plan directing that it be
200 feet long, rather than the 300 feet shown by the drawing itself.
Excavations revealed it to be indisputable that the contraction was
made in the longitudinal axis of the church, and was accomplished
by a radical shortening of its nave, rather than through diminution
of the liturgically important areas of transept and presbytery. (This
tends to confirm what is set forth in Volume I, p. 180, and above,
pp. 326ff.)
