The course and current of architecture; being an historical account of the origin, successive and simultaneous development, relations, periods, and characteristics of its various known styles (1863)
41 OF ARCHITECTURE. CHRISTIAN ROMANESQUE. … were not only for worship, but, like the Pagan basilicas, for holding local courts of justice — the form of these and of the Jewish temple were doubtless not without influence on that of the first edifices reared for assemblies of the faithful. Re¬ miniscences or traditions of the colonnades…
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