. The Basilica : or, Palatial Hall of Justice and Sacred Temple : its nature, origin, and a description and history of the Basilican Church of Brixworth. terminalof the aisle. The whole nave is ninety feet long by thirtyin width, originally parted at two-thirds its length,or sixty feet, from its west end by a transversewall—now no more—with a central or triumphalarch in the middle, corresponding to the largearch which leads into the eastern apse. Besidesthis central arch, the bases of whose piers I de-veloped by excavation some years ago, it hadarched openings on either side with clear storywi
. The Basilica : or, Palatial Hall of Justice and Sacred Temple : its nature, origin, and a description and history of the Basilican Church of Brixworth. terminalof the aisle. The whole nave is ninety feet long by thirtyin width, originally parted at two-thirds its length,or sixty feet, from its west end by a transversewall—now no more—with a central or triumphalarch in the middle, corresponding to the largearch which leads into the eastern apse. Besidesthis central arch, the bases of whose piers I de-veloped by excavation some years ago, it hadarched openings on either side with clear storywindows above, corresponding and opposite tothose at the east end. The walls of the nave between the west end andthe extinct partition—sixty feet in length—con-sist, on either side, of four bays, the arches semi-circular, built with Eoman tiles, or flat bricks oflarge dimensions, mostly in two courses, restingupon square imposts of the same material, setupon square piers of brick tiles and stone inter-mixed, mo7x Romano. Above, on either side, arethree clerestory windows, built in the same form,but much narrower and smaller, not immediiitely. HISTORY OF THE CHURCH. 47 over the lower arches, but in the perpendicularbetween each two. They are constructed with amixture of stone and fragments of bricks, asthough all the whole bricks taken from a previousbuilding had been exhausted in the constructionof the lower arches, and none but these fragmentsremained to intermix with stone in the clerestoryformation. That the Roman tiles used in this church weretaken from a pre-existing Roman building is evi-dent, not only from their fragmentary character inthe clerestory, and even in the piers and wallsbeneath, but also from the appearance of Romanmortar, of a different character from the rest, stilladhering, and manifest some time ago, to one ofthe tiles; but now, I regret to say, pointed overby churchwardens over-careful direction. It is a reasonable presumption that the Romanshad a
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