Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . , nth, and 12thcenturies the outside is as carefully designed as the still forms the material of the walls, but here atS. Theodore it is banded with stone, and in the archesthe successive rings are recessed behind one another inthe manner of the Gothic orders. Cornices of dentilsappear, and the blank walls are recessed between thewindows and doors with niches, or gigantic flutings whichare closed at top with conch-shaped stoppings. Theseoccur at S. Theodore (Plate XIX) and most of itscontemporaries; at the Pantocrator; in the great apsesof t
Byzantine and Romanesque architecture . , nth, and 12thcenturies the outside is as carefully designed as the still forms the material of the walls, but here atS. Theodore it is banded with stone, and in the archesthe successive rings are recessed behind one another inthe manner of the Gothic orders. Cornices of dentilsappear, and the blank walls are recessed between thewindows and doors with niches, or gigantic flutings whichare closed at top with conch-shaped stoppings. Theseoccur at S. Theodore (Plate XIX) and most of itscontemporaries; at the Pantocrator; in the great apsesof the Gul Djami (Fig. 30); and at the little church ofS. Thecla near the site of the vanished S. Mary ofBlachernae. New cornices were devised in brickwork Byzantinesuch as the vandyked example in the Gul Djami apsesand at S. Elias (Eski Serai Djami) at Salonica whichdates probably from the 12th century: an ornament 128 LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS [ch. ix which occurs also in the Church of the Apostles (Souk-Su Djami) in the same city. f^b-j. Fig. 30. But the greatest change was in the dome, which hadfrom the 5th century downwards been accepted as theprincipal feature of a Byzantine church. In the Gul Djami CH. ix] LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS 129
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