ve been built towards the close of the twelfthcentury. Many of our churches are basilica-shaped,i.e., oblong-shaped, often with a semi-circular apseat the end. They are built after the pattern ofthe ancient Roman Civil Courts of Justice, and tous the very shape is a poem telling that here,whatever… … SYMBOLISM. 27 chancel have been compared to the division ofthe world into Pagans, Jews, and Christians in anascending scale. The nave itself embodies in itsname and shape a pleasing poetic thought, it is aship. Look up at the vaulted roof and you seethe inverted hull. It symbolises the ark…
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