Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1912)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New Haven, Yale University Press · leaf 142
e sexes, as in all Early Christian churches, were sep-arated, these galleries were used for the women, and in theWest they may also have had a similar use. They seem tohave been quite as sporadic in their appearance as the transepts.Although Herr Mothes has tried to prove that they were a later… … THE APSE development, they seem to have been always known, and used ornot used quite arbitrarily. Generally speaking, however, weseldom find them in very large or important basilicas. I knowof few instances where they are found in a five-aisled church,and only rarely do they occur in a basilica…
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