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 310
rn apse.Its use is largely confined to Germany, where, indeed, it becameone of the most marked features of the rising national style.^ A third expedient for gaining space to house relics was theindefinite enlargement of the old Early Christian confessio orcrypt, which was made to extend under the… … III. 91. — Plan of Mettlach. (From Dehio) but especially in Italy, it became usual to raise the choir some-what above the rest of the church, in order to make more room forthe crypt. As this arrangement was found to be of additionaladvantage, in that it strongly marked the division of choir…
Architecture, Medieval
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