A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 77
converted into a church in more recenttimes. At Rome the seven great churches made by^ Con-stantino, which still retain the name of basilica in anespecial manner, were probably all originally law courts,and so preserved their old arrangements, which servedas types for others, and came to be… … stantine as a necessary part of the arrangement. That ofSt. John Lateranj which was the first that he made intoa, church, was originally one of the halls in the great palaceof the Lateran family. Those of St. Lorenzo and St. Agneswore originally two of the small burial-chapels at theentrance of…
