A dictionary of architecture and building; biographical, historical and descriptive (1901)
Sturgis, Russell, 1836-1909 · New York, Macmillan · leaf 439
ternal east wall (all the churches are oricTi-tated). At Baqouza the apse alone is circularexternally, being built in between the squareend of the diaconicon and prothesis ; and inKalat Semiiu, where there are apses at thetermination of the aisles as well, all three aredeveloped as circular… … Stone House at Chaqqa: 2nd-3rd Century. We now turn to the north of Syria, wherethere was less difficulty in procuring timber,and where the construction, except in certainlocal peculiarities, followed very much on thesame lines as those of the Romanesque style inEurope. In some of the towns, as at…
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