Medieval architecture, its origins and development, with lists of monuments and bibliographies (1909)
Porter, Arthur Kingsley, 1883-1933 · New York, The Baker and Taylor Company · leaf 306
he baptistery stillcontinued in use. The basilican plan was in every way better adapted to thepractical needs of the Carolingian church, although, strangelyenough, the extant basilican buildings of the era are usu-ally even less monumental and less pretending than the domededifices. The Carolingian… … III. 89. — Section of Geniiifiiiy-les-Pres ABSIDIOLES Of these innovations probably the first was the addition ofchapels to supply extra storage room for relics. We have al-ready seen that in the East it had become customary to termi-nate the side aisles of the basilica in the chapels of the…
Architecture, Medieval
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