Historic ornament : treatise on decorative art and architectural ornament (1909)
Ward, James, 1851-1924 · London : Chapman and Hall · leaf 308
A portion of thenave space was sometimesappropriated for the choir,screened off by a marblestructure, and at either endof the choir were placed theambos or pulpits (Fig. 330- The altar was in the centre of the apse, generally overthe tomb of a Christian martyr, and underneath all, orsometimes a… … ^^i.—Ambo or Pulpit fromSt. Georges at Salonica. 2 88 HISTORIC ORNAMENT. was plenty of building materials ready formed and dressed,which the architects of the new buildings appropriated fortheir own pu-poses in the erection of the basilicas. Thisaccounts for the great number of Roman Corinthian…
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