Evasio at Casale Monferrato, having a comparatively narrow nave with double aisles on either side and a very remarkable narthex or porch.
In front of the church a narthex and sometimes an exonarthex was added, which was of greater width than the church itself, as in the churches (both in Constantinople) of the Theotokos and of Chora (A.
Its western transept or narthex with tower in centre is a common type of the churches in Pomerania, and though very inferior in design is a version of those which in England are seen in Ely and Peterborough cathedrals.
The narthexor entrance vestibule forms a magnificent hall 240 ft.
The latter is an extremely fine example, which recalls the work at Cologne, and in its great western narthex follows on the lines of the German churches at Gernrode, Corvey and Brunswick.
It is a cruciform church with a central raised lantern, three eastern apses, a lofty south-western tower, and a fifteenth-century narthex in front of the rest of the west end.
All these archways open into the cloister, or narthex already mentioned.
So full was this narthex of tombs that from the arms on them it had become a sort of Heralds' College for the whole of the north of Portugal, but now only two remain in the shallow renaissance porch between the towers.
From the north-east corner of the narthex a door leads to the cloisters, which have a row of coupled shafts and small pointed arches.
Exactly similar in plan but without a narthex is the church of São Miguel at Guimarães, famous as being the church in which Affonso Henriques, the first king of Portugal, was baptized in 1111.
It consists of a rather high and narrow nave, a square-ended chancel, and to the west a lower narthex nearly as large as the chancel.
The doorway itself, which is not acutely pointed, stands under a gable which reaches up to the plain battlemented parapet of the flat narthex roof.
Originally there was a bell-gable above the narthex door, since replaced by a low square tower resting on the north-west corner of the narthex and capped by a plastered spire.
The narthex itself has central and side aisles, all of the same height, is two bays in length and is covered by a fine strong vault resting on short clustered piers.
The door leading from the narthex to the nave is much more elaborate; of four orders of mouldings, the two inner are plain, the two outer have a big roll at the angle, and all are slightly pointed.
Apollinare in Classe without the walls of Ravenna, the cathedral of Torcello, that is connected by a narthex with the later S.
The narthex in its turn was set within an atrium or outer colonnaded court, in the centre of which was a fountain, used by worshippers for ablutions before entering the consecrated building.
The general plan is square, but a fine narthex consisting of two spacious halls one above the other projects slightly beyond the actual church at the western end.
To appreciate the noble proportions, simplicity, and harmony of this vast edifice it is necessary to have the door between this narthex and the nave opened.
At the entrance is a narthexor vestibule decorated with admirable frescoes, protected by glass.
It is a plain vast edifice with narthex and round turret at main entrance.
In the narthex is also the tomb of Andrea del Sarto (died 1606), with bust by Caccini.
Of old the church too had before it a great narthex of which certain ruins are left, among them a little tower on the left.
This magnificent octagonal building with its narthex and atrium had, according to Agnellus, been founded by the Archbishop S.
Nor should thenarthex be forgotten, mere skeleton though it be.
Standing obliquely across one of the two angles of the octagon, directly opposite this sanctuary, stretched the narthex flanked by circular towers.
The light is that which lies below the vault and within the tribunes of the famous narthex (as they say), the vast fore-church or vestibule, into which the nave is prolonged.
The narthex of Vézelay, the largest of these singular structures, is glazed, and closed towards the west by what is now the façade.
One of the most important of these is the gum-resin of Narthex asafetida, which grows abundantly in the high and dry plains of eastern Afghanistan, especially between Kandahar and Herat.
The northern cella has been more damaged and restored; but still retains the narthex doorways (now blocked) which the central narthex has lost.
There is still the octagonal dome, the circular apse at one end of the building, and the narthex at the other.
The opposite theory of the narthex having been at that end, may on its side be confirmed by one of the frescoes, the last but two on the south wall, which represents the church itself as it was prior to A.
The narthex is in three bays, the central bay being covered by a barrel vault, while the lateral bays have low drumless domes on pendentives.
Irene perished, and, what most concerns us, the atrium and part of the narthex of S.
The narthex is a long narrow vestibule, covered with barrel vaults, and has a Turkish wooden ceiling at the southern end.
In sixteen-sided domes of the latter type the alternate sides sometimes correspond to the piers outside, so that the dome which has sixteen sides within shows only eight sides without, as in the narthex of S.
Sergius and Bacchus, the outer narthex of the Chora, the inner narthex of S.
A door in the northern wall of the north bay communicates with the narthex of the north church, while a door in the eastern wall of the bay gives access to the central church.
The cloisters behind the colonnades, were connected at their west end with the narthex by two large and elaborately moulded doorways still in position.
A window divided by shafts in three lights, now built up, stood in the bay at the extreme south, and similar windows looked down into the open bay of the narthexfrom the bays on either hand.
This would suggest that, at least, thenarthex of the south church is of later date than the north church.
Or a staircase may have stood to the west of the narthex over the vaulting of the atrium, where projecting spurs of walls appear.
Though some of the bays of that narthex are oblong and others almost square all are covered with dome vaults.
The effect is the more impressive because the narthex is raised considerably above the level of the ground and reached by a flight of steps.
Capital on the North Side of the Door leading from the Outer to the Inner Narthex 254 LXXV.
This court or narthex extends the whole width of the building, and is both lofty and well lit.
Two lofty vaulted openings display the interior to this gallery; while the wall between narthex and exo-narthex is pierced by three arches in a similar style.
The Byzantine feature of a narthex is wanting both to this building and to the cathedral.
The exo-narthex has a width of 18 feet, and the narthex of 9 feet 7 inches.
But the narthex is not a feature of the churches of Great Armenia.
The side next the church was called the narthex or porch; and when an atrium did not exist, a narthexat least was usually provided.
The narthex or porch is still more or less traceable in the great western portals, and in a kind of separation which often, but not always, exists between the westernmost bay of a cathedral and the rest of the structure.
The basilica has always a central avenue, or nave, and sides or aisles, and was generally entered from the narthex by three doors, one to each division.
One curious and indeed unique feature is found in the Provençal cathedral churches: the choir for the bishop and chapter is at the west end, in the gallery, over the narthex or porch.
Thereupon the Ecthesis was attached publicly to the narthex of Sancta Sophia.
Ecthesis) attached to the narthex of the great church in our imperial city, which contain the questions above mentioned, to be removed.
Still, in spite of all disputes, the abbey was the last resting-place of the Frankish Dukes of Athens, and in a vault beneath the narthex were found several of their rude stone coffins, without inscription or ornament.
The porch ornarthex is double, one hundred feet in depth.
Over this second narthex and the side aisles is the gynoeconitis or women's gallery, adorned with sixty-seven pillars, so that the whole number of columns in the church is the prime number one hundred and seven.
Two other doors in the narthex of the same church, having simpler ornamentation of inlaid silver, are probably as early as the time of Justinian.
The real wonder of the cathedral is the far-famed Portico de la Gloria, the vestibule or narthex behind the western entrance of the church, and as renowned as its sculptural value is meritorious.
This influence is above all to be seen in the Portico del Paraiso, an interior narthex leading from the western front to the body of the church.
The narthex and the western end are still preserved.
Behind the western front, and leading directly into the body of the church, is a delightful Romanesque narthex which doubtlessly served as the western facade prior to the eighteenth-century additions.
In the nave were seats for the congregation; in the narthex there were none.
In the later ecclesiastical buildings, therefore, of the cupola style the ground plan of the basilica was adopted, with atrium and narthex at the west end and bema and apse at the east end.
While the nave was building a narthex was added before the western entrance, consisting of a fifty-foot-deep porch.
That church of three aisles was remade with cupolas and blessed in 1180, and of the same date are the fortified narthex and its tower.
First the narthex was blown up with gunpowder; then a transept arm.
The triple doors between narthex and nave are a supreme work.
There is no more romantically ideal a vista in architecture than the white choir of Vézelay, as it appears from the narthex through the imaged portico.
An antechurch ornarthex was a frequent addition to the Burgundian basilica; sometimes it was open as at Autun and Beaune, sometimes wholly inclosed as at Vézelay.
However, in the narthexthey built upper galleries, under whose lean-to roof was concealed a quarter-circle wall that did the work of a continuous flying buttress.
Over the easternmost bay of the narthex appeared a vault section with Gothic ribs, but the diagonals were more decorative than functional; the vault web of rubble in a bed of mortar was molded on a temporary frame like a groin vault.
Before the western door an open narthex for the use of lepers was added about 1178.
The collegiate church of Notre Dame at Beaune is a typical Burgundian Romanesque edifice of the XII century, to which the following century added a graceful open narthex of two bays.
There is a narthex bay at the western end--a Germanic influence.
It was joined, by means of a narthex or forechurch, to the ancient tower which had been built isolated before the Romanesque cathedral of St. Étienne.
Although Cluny's narthex was built as late as 1220, groin vaulting was used for the aisles.
To the south the narthex terminated in an apse nearly 20 ft.
The foundations show that there were two basilicas side by side, with a narthex common to both and a passage between them up to the transept.
The nave appears to have had twelve columns on either side, with projecting piers from thenarthex and from the eastern wall.
One with the subject of Hippolytus and Phædra, found in the narthex of the little basilica at Salona in 1859, in a fifth-century stratum, is a late copy of one in the Louvre.
The finest fragment has a figure of a peacock with tail displayed, which was in the narthex in front of the door to the church, and is now in the museum.
There was one west door, a narthex of two bays, and an atrium.
The narthex has three thick antique pillars, part granite and part marble, with heavy early Christian Corinthian caps and super-abaci with crosses upon them.
In the ancient basilican churches the narthex was the first section of the building--an ante-temple, long and narrow, in front of the nave.
In the Middle Ages the denomination narthex was given to closed porches of churches, and ceased to be any longer applicable to a portion of a religious edifice lying within the walls.
There are narthex and outer narthex and a number of subsidiary chapels, divided from the central chapel by columns of different sizes and shapes.
The mural paintings of the side chapels are of little interest; but the mosaics in the narthex and outer narthex are by far the finest remaining examples of the art now visible in Constantinople.
The door of the narthex is inserted between the two columns.
The walls and ceiling of the exo-narthex are quite plain.
Originally the church was approached at the west through an atrium, an outer narthex and a narthex.
It is a basilica with two aisles and apse, narthex and atrium.
A door now closed at the south of the narthex shows where was the entrance to the Church of S.
The exterior of the apses have much fine work; and the door and windows of the narthex are well worth careful examination.
Those in the outernarthex represent the history of the B.
The atrium cannot now be traced: the exo-narthex and narthexstill remain, but it seems probable that the former is not now as it was originally built.
The narthex seems to have been thrown into the church, as is shown by the heavy pier supporting the gallery, with its counterpart in the outer walls ending abruptly at the wall plate.
He walks forward till he faces the midst of the church, and there over the great central door, the largest of the nine which open eastwards from the narthex into the nave, the mosaic can still be traced, for the paint is almost worn off.
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