# Interior view [View the canonical artwork record]() ## Artwork - Artist: [ARCHITECT, French]() - Date: 1151-1200 - Technique: Photo ## Commentary The former Premonstratensian abbey church of Saint-Yved served as the burial place of the Counts of Dreux. The building is based on the Cathedral of Laon, and it demonstrates how medieval architects could adapt a great model purely by simplifying it, and in doing so reshape it into something new. Instead of four storeys there are only three, the gallery being omitted, The nave does not have the subtlety of alternating clusters of responds, and these responds are not divided into rhythmic length of shaft rings. In place of an ambulatory, as existed in Laon at the time, Braine possesses an original choir with diagonally placed side chapels. View the <a href="\#" onClick="w=window.open \('/support/plans/zzzarchi/12c/2/2/braine.html', 'newWin', 'scrollbars=yes,status=no,dependent=yes,screenX=0,screenY=0,width=400,height=600'\);w.opener=this;w.focus\(\);return false">ground plan</a> of the abbey church of Saint-Yved, Braine. Since there are in this region other churches in which similar features are to be found, Laon appears to have functioned as a life-size "model-building kit" during the last years of the 12th century. The photo shows the choir and crossing. ## Related artworks - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Aerial view]() - [Bird's eye view]() - [Burial lantern]() - [Castle]() ## Attribution [Web Gallery of Art]()