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Title: Church and conventual arrangement. With copious references, a complete glossary, and an index. And illustrated by a series of ground-plans and plates of the arrangements of churches in different countries and at successive periods, and of the conventual plans adopted by the various orders
Year: 1861 (1860s)
Authors: Walcott, Mackenzie E. C. (Mackenzie Edward Charles), 1821-1880
Subjects: Church architecture Convents
Publisher: London, Atchley and Co
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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elite (e.g.Hulne)—were oblong and of unbroken length, destitute of atriforium, and generally provided with only a single aisle or asingle transept. Franciscan. The choirs are aisleless, generally flat-ended; but a Fran-ciscan ruin at Winchelsea has an apse. The Franciscan churchat Stirling has an octagonal apse. In the fourteenth ^andfifteenth centuries, tall, narrow towers, as at Roswick, Moyne,Multifernan, Adare, and Kilconnel, were inserted between thenave and choir. Ardfert has a west tower; the cloister is onthe north at Moyne, Muckross, and Adare, on the south atKilconnel. Kilconnel6 and Muckross have a south transept;Castle Dermot has a north aisle and transept. Reading hada nave and aisles. The church of Santa Croce, Florence, has abroad nave and aisles, a transept with five chapels on each 1 Lenoir, ii. 478 ; Fosbrooke, Brit. Mon. 115.2 Proc. Ass. Soc. ii. 317. 3 Ecclesiologist, i. 163. 4 Lenoir, ii. 478. 5 Fosbrooke, Brit. Mon. 117, 121. 6 Proc. R. I. B. A. 1858-9, p. 127.
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Friars—Dominican. 77 side, and a small apsidal choir; a sacristy on the south ofthe south transept, and three cloisters to the south of thechurch. St. Maria de Frari, Venice, has a narrow transept,a short broad choir ending in a hexagonal apse, betweensix four-sided apsidal chapels opening on the transept, and abroad nave in which the choir is arranged. The general plan of the Irish Franciscan monasteries in-cluded an irregular quadrangle with square cloisters in thecentre, bounded by the church generally on the north side(Kilconnel is, however, an exception) and by the monasticbuildings on the other three sides. The dormitory extendedover the chapter-house; and at Kilconnel Mr. Blake believesthat he could indicate the guest-house, the superiors oratory,and the prison, a two-storeyed building. The architectureappears to have been copied from Italy and Spain. Withinthe pale there was an undoubted English influence. At Kil-connel there is a detached mortuary chapel. The peculiarbattle

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