A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 103
containing many vaulted rooms orcisterns capable of holding a prodigious quantity of water. There lay in a ehapelle at the White Freres a rich marehaunt eaullidRanulphus de Kyme, wlios image WU tliens taken and set at the south ende ofthe new Castelle of the eonduete of water in Wikerford. There is… … 88 CATACOMBS—CEILING. Catacombs, Ital. Catacombe: subterraneous vaults or exca-vations used as burying^places : those at Rome were resorted toby the early Christians as places of worship in time of persecution;and the crypts under churches are supposed to be in imitationor remembrance of them.…
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