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Title: An essay on the history of English church architecture prior to the separation of England from the Roman obedience
Year: 1881 (1880s)
Authors: Scott, G. Gilbert (George Gilbert), 1839-1897
Subjects: Church architecture Church architecture
Publisher: London, Simpkin, Marshall and co.
Contributing Library: Getty Research Institute
Digitizing Sponsor: Getty Research Institute

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Aventine . E. This church has been wholly modernised, but from the arrangement of its confessionarycrypt the present orientation appears to be the ancient. There are thus seven churches of the early centuries in Rome which appear to have retainedtheir original form, which have an eastward sanctuary. There are, besides these, three foundedin primitive times, which have now eastward sanctuaries, but in which a reversal of the originaldistribution is possible, or probable, and one, St. Laurence, in which it is certain. Let us now see how many of the more ancient churches of Rome conform to the normalprimitive plan. St. Peters. Basilica Vaticana. Its sanctuary is W. Though the present church is of course comparatively modern, it agrees in this respectexactly with the church erected by Constantine which it has replaced. Fontanas plan shows to the westward of the ancient church another small but complete basilica withtransepts, dedicated to St. Stephen. This also had the westward sanctuary.
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THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 19 St. John Lateran. Basilica Laterana W. St. Mary Major. Basilica Liberiana N.W. St. Laurence, without the walls, (before its reversal in 1216) W. Thus of the five great patriarchal basilicas, St. Pauls, without the walls, is the onlyexception to the rule. St. Balbina, on the Aventine W. St. Saba, on the eastern slope of the same hill N.W. St. Cecilia, in the Trastevere N.W. This church is built upon the site of the house of Cecilia. It was founded by Urban I.,in 230. St. George in Velabro N.W.N. Founded in the fourth century. It is the only church in Rome dedicated in honour of the patronof England. St. Clement N.W.W. The orientation of the earlier church, recently discovered below the present building, is the same as that of the latter. St. Crisogonus, in the Trastevere W. St. Martin di Monti, on the Esquiline hill N.W. Sts. Nereus and Achilles, on the Appian street S.W.W. St. Prassede N.W.N. St. Pudentiana, on the Aventine N.W. The churc

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