Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 30
ce it was termed by the Latins ferula (rod, or staff), the Greek word nartheximplying an oblong figure. Where churches had porticos attached to them (as hadthe church of Paullinus of Tyre, described by Eusebius, where the porticos adjoinedon north and south), these also were termed nartheces, but… … The entrance into the narthex of the church of Paullinus, from the outward ante-temple, was by three doorways, containing gates, the middle one being the highest ofthe three (Fig. 4, Nos. 5 and 6). Paullinus, Bishop of Nola, describes these doorwaysor porches as being arched, whence they were…
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