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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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har, near to the parcel of ground that Jacobgave to his son Joseph. Now Jacobs well was there. (John iv. 5,6.) Art thou greater than our father Jacob,which gave us the well, and drank thereof himself, and his children, and his cattle ? (lb., iv. 12.) And the bones of Joseph, which the children of Israel brought up out of Egypt, buried they in Shechem,in a parcel of ground which Jacob bought of the sons of Hamor, the father of Shechem, for an hundred piecesof silver. (Joshua xxiv. 32 ; cf also Gen. 1. 24-26 ; Ex. xiii. 19 ; Acts vii. 16.) John iv. 6. ° The custom of erecting churches upon sacred and historical sites, as those of the martyrdom of an athleteof the faith, was quite universal in the early ages, and Syria and the Holy Land abound with examples of it.The Jewish synagogues were more commonly associated each with some symbol which recalled an event inthe history of the nation, Aarons budding rod, for example, or the table of the shew-bread. And this symbol it PLATE XIV. FIG I
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FIG. I. CHURCH AT BABOUDA, NEAR ALEPPO. FIG. IL SECULAR BASILICA AT CHAQQA, NEAR DAMASCUS. THE HISTORY OF ENGLISH CHURCH ARCHITECTURE. 57 Retur-ning from this digression into Palestine, I would observe that the churches of thenorthern part of the country are, as I have said, all of the basilican model, and that it isthese, therefore, to which I have chiefly directed attention, as illustrating, in a remote land,the gradual developement of that type from which our own church architecture is mainlyderived. These churches have all been roofed in wood. In the south, where timber was not to be procured, the roofs are of stone, and great ingenuityis exhibited in meeting the requirements of such a mode of construction. Here, too, we findexamples of that other type, wholly distinct from that of the western basilica, which wecommonly term byzantine : churches of which the great feature is the domical form of roofing.As, however, this type exercised no influence upon our english ecclesiology, un

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