Identifier: dalmatiaquarnero03jackuoft (find matches)
Title: Dalmatia : the Quarnero and Istria with Cettigne in Montenegro and the Island of Grado
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Grado, Island of Istria (Croatia and Slovenia) Dalmatia (Croatia) Croatia -- Slavonia Montenegro
Publisher: Oxford : Clarendon Press
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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3 4 I I U^ METR.EB , -^f -n I I I iH BN&l-ISH F-DEX. Firf. I20. corresponding in position with the atrium of theancient basilicas. A narthex or open porch ex-tends across the front with a modest campanile atthe left hand. The church (vid. plan, Fig. 120) con-sists of a nave and aisles, the nave ending with anapse, which however does not project beyond the lineof the aisles, but is included within the rectangularplan of the outer walls. The nave and aisles are Ch. XXXIII.) MiLo-o-ia Vecchia, ^3^3 ?>n divided by plain piers of masonry instead of columns,the arches are semicircular, and the structure is
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Fiy-. 121, devoid of any positive architectural ornament. The 374 Mnggia Vecchia. (Ch. XXXIII. o interest of the church consists in the ambo and thestone screens which enclose the choir and partition offthe east end of the aisles. These are extremely curious,and have preserved admirably the ritual arrangementof an early romanesque church (vid. Fig. 121). The screens are dwarf walls made of thin slabsof stone on edge with capping and posts of thickerstone, on which are carved a variety of inter-lacing fillets and knots in the style of the ninth ortenth century. They partition off the easternbay of the aisles, with an opening in the centrefor passage, and return so as to include the twoeastern bays of the nave and partition them offfor a choir or chancel. At the left hand of thescreen that crosses the nave is the ambo, a circularpulpit mounted on four columns with simple capitals,of which two have bases of a rude Attic type, withleaves or toes at the angles, and the other twohave no bas

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