. My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire . the i^7 My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus. north aisle. This building is at presentused as a grain store, and it is so filled upwith partition walls, etc., and so dark thatit is difficult to make out its plan, whichis a nave of five bays, ending in an apse,with a cupola over the fourth bay, flankedby aisles of four b
. My experiences of Cyprus; being an account of the people, mediæval cities and castles, antiquities and history of the island of Cyprus: to which is added a chapter on the present economic and political problems which affect the island as a dependency of the British empire . the i^7 My Experiences of the Island of Cyprus. north aisle. This building is at presentused as a grain store, and it is so filled upwith partition walls, etc., and so dark thatit is difficult to make out its plan, whichis a nave of five bays, ending in an apse,with a cupola over the fourth bay, flankedby aisles of four bays each. There are twoother doors in the north aisle—in the baysimmediately west of the porch mentionedabove. They are neither of them so richas the latter, and the middle one of thethree is walled up. Church of 5t, Plary of the Augustins. At the present day this church is theOmergheh Mosque. It belongs to the firsthalf of the fourteenth century, and has sufferedmuch from earthquakes. This can be wellseen in an arcade on the south of the porch,where the pillars on one side lean consider-ably outwards. At the east end on the northside of the nave, which consists of three bays,stands a small chapel with a beautiful rosewindow (sec illustration, opposite). At the i3«.
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