A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 79
hurch in more recenttimes. At Rome the seven great churches made by Con-; stantine, which still retain the name of basilica in anr especial manner, were probably all originally law courts,eI and so preserved their old arrangements, which served1 as types for others, and came to be considered the… … (Cljurcfj* 7i stantine as a necessary part of the arrangement. That ofSt. John Lateran, which was the first that he made intoa church, was originally one of the halls in the great palaceof the Lateran family. Those of St. Lorenzo and St. Agneswere originally two of the small burial-chapels at…
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