A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 43
Original Han of the Basilica of St. Peter at Roma, 38 asdics—SBattlement 37 when it was made into a Basilica. The apse, therefore,belongs to the earliest idea of a public church; those pre-viously existing had been either rooms or chapels. Thebasilican plan almost requires that the altar should…
