Identifier: byzantineromanes131jack (find matches)
Title: Byzantine and Romanesque architecture
Year: 1913 (1910s)
Authors: Jackson, Thomas Graham, Sir, 1835-1924
Subjects: Architecture, Byzantine Architecture, Romanesque
Publisher: Cambridge (Eng.) University press
Contributing Library: Wellesley College Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries

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. This, which was the final plan of the Greekchurch, was not arrived at all at once. The earlier churchesof S. George (Fig. i6) and the Eski Djouma (Fig. ii)at Salonica are simpler, the latter being of the ordinarybasilican type, and it was perhaps not till the time ofJustinian that the ceremonial of Greek Christianity wasfinally regulated. 1 TertuUian, de Corona, cap. ill. contrasting rites based on tradition withthose resting on Scripture,—Eucharistiae Sacramentum, et in tempore victus,et omnibus mandatum a Domino, etiam antelucanis coetibus, nee de aliorummanu quam praesidentium sumimus. CH.iv) GREEK CHURCH ARCHITECTURE 47 These churches had no bell-towers, for they had nobells, and the congregations were summoned by beatingwith a wooden mallet on a long thin board or plate ofmetal,—a semantron, or symbolon,—which may still beheard at some places in the East. Unlike the Latins, the Greeks separated the sexes in Thetheir services. In large churches the women sat in the llnttis
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Fig. II. triforium gallery, reached by stairs from the narthex;where there was no triforium, in the narthex ; and wherethere was neither narthex nor triforium they sat on oneside of the nave and the men on the other. The exterior of the buildings was of plain brickwork. Plainsometimes, though not generally, plastered, with little orno architectural decoration ; at the utmost columns andcapitals between the apse windows carrying arches over exteriors 48 GREEK CHURCH ARCHITECTURE (ch. iv them as at S. Demetrius, Salonica (Plate H). The roofsof timber were covered with half-round tiles, the Italian Splendour coppi. All splendour of adornment was reserved for theinside. This was magnificent enough ; the columns andcapitals were of fine marble, with which the very wallswere also encrusted, and the apse and dome were linedwith mosaic of glass. The result was that strangemysterious beauty which invests these Byzantine churcheswith a character and a charm that is all their own. Theeffect on t

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