An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . nale, i., 3). Of the first he speaksthus :— Sacerdos secretum intrans quasi velatur quibusdam cortinis quoe sunt in lateribus altaris (ib., ii., 9).And again:— Cortinae quas ab utroque altaris latere extenduntur sacerdote secretum intrante (ib., i., 3).The second is the lenten curtain :— Cortina quae in quadragesima in ofificiis missae ante altare extenditur (ib.).Of the third he gives this account:— Tertium inde tunc habuit originem, quia in primitiva ecclesia pari-bolus, id es
An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience . nale, i., 3). Of the first he speaksthus :— Sacerdos secretum intrans quasi velatur quibusdam cortinis quoe sunt in lateribus altaris (ib., ii., 9).And again:— Cortinae quas ab utroque altaris latere extenduntur sacerdote secretum intrante (ib., i., 3).The second is the lenten curtain :— Cortina quae in quadragesima in ofificiis missae ante altare extenditur (ib.).Of the third he gives this account:— Tertium inde tunc habuit originem, quia in primitiva ecclesia pari-bolus, id est paries qui circuit chorum, non elevatur nisi usque ad apodiacionem (quod adhuc in quibusdamecclesiis observatur), veruntamen hoc tempore, quasi communiter, suspenditur sive interponitur velum autmums inter clerum et populum ne mutuo se conspicere possint (ib.). Thus this third curtain is but a form ofthe ciioir-enclosure, which was more commonly efifected in the middle ages by a solid wall. For information upon this point I am indebted to Dr. Rock, Church of Our Fathers, i., 193, et seq. PLATE MOSAICS FROM THE CHURCH OF St. GEORGE AT THESSALONIC.^. FIG I. THE 11. THE BALDAQUIN. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 163 should have prevailed in these isles, when we know that it was the custom in the churches ofGaul. We may reasonably conclude that in those saxon churches—such as Wing and Worth—which exhibit, in the apsidal form of the eastern termination, and in the wide triumphal archthe distinctly basilican type, the baldaquin once existed, while in those whose square east-ends and narrow sanctuary-arches betray the british origin of their plan, the transverse veilwas in use. As the two traditions became fused into one in the uses of medieval England, neither modeof screening off the altar was abandoned, and in our churches of the middle ages both wereto be seen in use. Although the baldaquin went out of fashion some time before the
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