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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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hcentury. There were originally two at the west end, andthen a third was added over the crossing. In Germany, in adouble-apsidal church, there were often six, one over eachtransept and four ranged round the angles of the central partof the building, near the apses. In France a central and twowest towers were common.5 St. Andrea, Vercelli, has fourtowers, two at the west end, one S.E. of the south transept,and a central octagon. Pope Stephen III. in 770, built abell-tower, but such an addition was extremely rare untilthe ninth century; and the first Lombardic towers were amere succession of stages.6 One of the time of Justinian, a circular building, wasattached to St. Apollinaris ad Classem, at Verona; twoancient round towers are found at Verona, one dating from 1 Williss Holy City, pp. 278, 289. 2 Kiddle, vi. ch. v. § 5. 3 Hope, i. ch. xxiv. p. 243 ; Yiollet le Due, iii. 382.4 Viollet le Due, s.v. Clocher; Lenoir, i. 314, ii. 38, 61, 216.5 Abec. de lArch. Eel. pp. 102-5. 6 lb. p. 97.
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Towers. 1047 ; others at Ravenna, and Pisa; another, of the same date,remains at Bury, near Beauvais; a sixth, of a later period, atSt. Desert, near Chalons-sur-Saone; while square towers arefound in Italy in the eighth and ninth centuries, as at St.Pauls and St. Johns, Rome; and one at Porto, near Rome,built 830.1 Towers—originally built in the close, as at Verona and Tor-cello ; and before the church doors, as at St. Maria Toscanellaand St. Lorenzo, in Italy; and flanking the west front as atSt. Ambrose, Milan; however, never forming integral parts ofthe design—were at length attached to the west front of thechurch, singly, as at Lyons, St. Martin at Tours, Poissy, St.Benoit-sur-Loire, Puy, Limoges, St. Savin, and St. Germaindes Pres, and at Paris in the thirteenth century. In thesouth of France, until the middle of the thirteenth century, inItaly and Spain, they remained generally isolated. Two some-times flanked the west front, as at Jumieges, and St. GeorgeBocherville, with a

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