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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Fig. 30. But the greatest change was in the dome, which hadfrom the 5th century downwards been accepted as theprincipal feature of a Byzantine church. In the Gul Djami CH. ix) LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS 129
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5 JjMrt.*^!^Ti/H^i^.tf^Ay Fig. 31- J. A. I30 LATER BYZANTINE BUILDINGS (ch. ix The towerdome The church ofthe ChoraMone tesChoras at Constantinople, which is a large church with a spanin the nave and dome of 28 ft., the dome still showsoutside as in the earlier churches. But at S. Theo-dore, the Pantocrator, S. Saviour Pantepoptes (Fig. 31),and the later churches at Constantinople and Salonica,the dome is enclosed in a lofty drum which from the small-ness of the span becomes a tower and is carried up andclosed with a pyramidal roof. The drum is brought into apolygon and panelled on each side with arcading, dividedby shafts worked in brick, and with brick capitals, carry-ing arches which break into the pyramidal roof; andinstead of being levelled above the back of the arch aswe northerners should have done, the round extrados isleft, and the roof fitted to it on each face of the tower,which gives it a fluted form like the outside of a melon.This drum-tower design prevailed through all

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