The Civil engineer and architect's journal, scientific and railway gazette (1839)
London : [William Laxton] · leaf 254
on the Mount of Olives, was circular, as is proved by the plandrawn on wax in the Sth century, and engraved in the Ada Sanc-torum. This temple and the church of the Holy Sepulchre, are thereputed types of several churches built by the crusaders in their nativecouiitries. The churches of St.… … One of the nearest approaches to the description of Eusebius is thechurch of St. Vitalis, at Ravenna, founded in 534, while that city wasstill the seat of the Greek exarchs. Its plan is that of an octagonhaving semicircular chapels and exedrie on several points of its peri-meter, or it may be…
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