An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . tness of his style, and the playfulness of his imagination. The learned canon to whom the reader is indebted for the publication of this interestingdescription of these two adjacent basilicas, has appended to the text of the epistle, a full I speak, of course, of these churches in their ancient form. The plan which I give of St. Peters is takenfrom Fornici, that of the old St. Pauls from * Tradition says that they were brought from Greece, or from the temple of Sol
An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . tness of his style, and the playfulness of his imagination. The learned canon to whom the reader is indebted for the publication of this interestingdescription of these two adjacent basilicas, has appended to the text of the epistle, a full I speak, of course, of these churches in their ancient form. The plan which I give of St. Peters is takenfrom Fornici, that of the old St. Pauls from * Tradition says that they were brought from Greece, or from the temple of Solomon. Rector and Vicar of Lyminge. ^ It will be found in the following discursus, which Canon Jenkins has allowed me to introduce in this entire section is contributed by the learned author of The Basilical Church of St. Mary at Dr. Rocks Hierurgia, 238, 271. 1 At Trieste may be seen two basilicas, standing side by side, and communicating with each other by what istermed, in the letter of St. Paulinus, a transenna. This double building (a plan of which will be found in Lenoir, PLATE FIG. I. EXTERIOR OF THE APSE OF THE CHURCH OF ST. SIMON STYLITES, NEAR II. PLAN OF A BASILICA AT THESSALONICA. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 63 translation, and has illustrated it further by notes and observations, which make it unnecessaryfor me to enter upon a description of this great church, or indeed to do more than to refer thereader to them. I will only remark that, like the Vatican basilica, the church at Nola had itshigh-altar toward the west:it resembled it further in having doubled aisles, and also, as Ibelieve (although it is not expressly so stated), in being transeptal. It differed from in the fact that its apse was in some sense triple. Whether, as Canon Jenkins suggests,there were lesser conchulce recessed from the apse itself, as is common in the East, or threedistinct apses opening out of the transept, side by side,
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