How to know architecture : the human elements in the evolution of styles (1914)
Wallis, Frank Edwin, 1862-1929 · New York : Harper and Brothers · leaf 164
lt or a wheel —as the apse is circular in form. Theapse invariably pointed to the east, the celestial paradisehaving been located in that direction by the ancients.On the westerly end of the nave and serving as a porchwas the narthex, or place of the penitents. This wasalso one of the four sides of… … FIG. 56 — DORMER AT LISIEUX, FRANCE, SHOWING TRANSITIONFROM FIFTEENTH-CENTURY GOTHIC HOW TO KNOW ARCHITECTURE which might be attained within the church. In Romantimes this square was arcaded on all four sides and hada fountain in the centre, where it was the custom for thefaithful to wash before…
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