Identifier: byzantineromanes131jack (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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a)^with a nave ending in an apse, and a single aisle on eachside in two storeys, the upper storey, or triforium, beingthe gynaeconitis or gallery for women. The proportionsare considerable, the nave being about 120 ft. longwith a span of nearly 50 ft. from centre to centre of thecolumns. The side aisles are each about 23 ft. widefrom the wall to the same point. The columns have abottom diameter of i 11 J and are about 7 diametersin height; the length of the bays from centre to centreis 9 5. At the west end is a double narthex, of whichThe exo- the outer or exo-narthex is now very ruinous, but retainsits original door into the street with marble jambs andlintel. From this a central doorway now leads into theeso-narthex ; but this opening is not original, for it cutsthrough two small blank arches of brick which whenperfect would have met in the middle, so that there Professor Van Millingens admirable work Byzantine Constantinoplegives an exhaustive account of the walls. narthex Plate Vt
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ESKI DJOUMA—SALONICATriplet light in Narthex Plate VII

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