D'Anvers, N., -1933 · London : T.C. & E.C. Jack ; New York : Dodge Pub. Co. · leaf 36
I architecture, but the more usual form was the basilican, the altar having been placed on the raised platform within the i semicircular apse at the eastern end, the bishops and clergy j occupying the seats assigned in halls of justice to the praetor and his assessors, whilst the congregation met… … building the form of a cross. Later structural changes were the erection of an arch above the altar, the heightening of the nave, the connecting of the columns between the nave and aisles by arches instead of horizontal architraves, the intro- duction of windows, to which the collective name of the…
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