Inchurch architecture,aporticus(Latinfor "portico")[a]is usually a small room in a church.[2]Commonly, porticuses form extensions to the north and south sides of a church, giving the building acruciformplan.They may function aschapels,rudimentarytranseptsor burial-places. For example,Anglo-Saxonkings of Kentwere buried in the south porticus atSt Augustine's AbbeyinCanterbury,with the exception ofEadberht II,who was buried in a similar location inSt Mary's Church, Reculver.[3]
This feature of church design originated in the lateRomanperiod and continued to appear in those built on theEuropean continentand, inAnglo-Saxon England,until the 8th century.[4]
Notes
edit- ^Most Latin terms ending in-usaremasculineand form theirnominativepluralwith-ibutporticusis afemininefourth-declensionnoun whose plural is alsoporticus,sometimes differentiated with amacronasporticūs.[1]The English plural form isporticuses,when the term is not simply translated asportico.
References
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edit- ^Lewis, C.T.; Short, C., eds. (n.d.)."porticus".A Latin Dictionary.www.perseus.tufts.edu.Archivedfrom the original on 31 January 2016.Retrieved6 September2018.
- ^"Glossary of ecclesiastical terms".Archi UK. n.d.Archivedfrom the original on 29 June 2016.Retrieved28 January2017.
{{cite web}}:CS1 maint: year (link) - ^Kelly 2008,pp. 78–9.
- ^Cherry 1981,p. 168.
Bibliography
edit- Cherry, B. (1981) [1976], "Ecclesiastical architecture", in Wilson, D.M. (ed.),The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England,Cambridge University Press, pp.151–200,ISBN0-521-28390-6
- Kelly, S. (2008),"Reculver Minster and its early charters",in Barrow, J.; Wareham, A. (eds.),Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks,Ashgate, pp.67–82,ISBN978-0-7546-5120-8
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