Identifier: essayonhistoryof00scot (find matches)
Title: An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897
Subjects: Church architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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ise the relation ofthe two buildings and the manner in which they were so united as to become almost a single pile. The writer of these lines has often attempted to sketch out a ground-plan of the two buildings, but withoutsatisfying himself fully on the subject. In order to make an approach to the solution of the difficulty we mustbear in mind :— 1. That the second church had an entirely different aspect from the first, and therefore could not be parallel with it. 2. That it could not join it at the eastern end, as the point of junction is distinctly indicated to be at opposite to the altar of St. Felix in the apse, and to have been contrived by the removal of amonument, which must have been one of the ciibiacla described as inserted in the wall of the nave,or possibly in the end of a transept. 3. That the union was by means of an open cloister, here called a transenna, and qualified by the term perlucense. This would more probably be on the south than on the north side. PLATE XIX.
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FIG. I. CONJIiCTURAL RESTORATION OF THE GROUND-PLAN OF THE BASILICA OF NOLA.FIG. II. PLAN OF THE BASILICA OF TRIESTE. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 85 4. That the apse and altar of the new church must have been in the direction of that of the earlier onein order to look towards the altar (or memory ) of the confessor, and hence as this was mostprobably on the gospel side of the high altar, the new church must have stood S.E. and N.W.,the cloister (or transctma) having a transverse direction. (I have ventured, with much diffidence, and only at the bidding of the learned Canon (whose wish, under thecircumstances, is, for me, a command), to draw out a conjectural plan of the two basilicas, as I understand St.Paulinus description. It will be seen from this plan that I differ a little from the conclusions which the Canonhas arrived at in regard to the relative positions of the two churches. 1. I conceive the second basilica to have had a different prospectus from the larger o

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