. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 248 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [August, simple tau. These singular edifices are divitled not by one transept Init 1)V two. The first cuts the lungitii-linal nave in half; the western or inferior end forms the nave properly speaking, and tlie eastern end forms the apsis of the church; this apsis itself is divided by a second transept, usually shorter than the first. On this side, viz., from the first to the second transept, is the choir; on the other, viz., fr
. The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette. Architecture; Civil engineering; Science. 248 THE CIVIL ENGINEER AND ARCHITECT'S JOURNAL. [August, simple tau. These singular edifices are divitled not by one transept Init 1)V two. The first cuts the lungitii-linal nave in half; the western or inferior end forms the nave properly speaking, and tlie eastern end forms the apsis of the church; this apsis itself is divided by a second transept, usually shorter than the first. On this side, viz., from the first to the second transept, is the choir; on the other, viz., from the second transept to the bottom of the church, is the sanetuiry. The at Salisbuiy, Lincoln, Beverley, Rochester, and Worcester are of this character. Let a figure be drawn of the Cross of Christ, with a long and wide label attached to it bearing the inscription "Jesus of Nazareth, King of the ; This libel, as it were, is adopted in English churches, and forms the eastern transept, that which divides the top of the Cross into two parts; then comes the usual cross aisle or transept, on which the arms of Christ were ex- tended. This is derived from the Cross of Lorraine, tiie Cross of the Knights Hospitallers, and from that which denotes at present the archiepiscopul dignity, it is the double Cross ; it seems to be borrowed from Greecp, for we meet with it frequently in Attica, in the Morea, and at Mount Athos. The designs for churches in the form of a Cross were often revealed in visions. In the night an angel appeared to a sleeping saint, perhaps to a bishop, and made known to him the form of a monument which was to be erected by the command of God ; immediately the work was put in hand according to the model seen in the dream. Some- times bright lines were observed in the sky, tracing on the clouds the form of tlie church to be erected. In this way Constanline caused his Labarum to be executed in the form of that which he had seen traced in lines
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