basilican
Americanadjective
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All in all, what remains of the basilican treasury is only a fragment of its earlier glories.
From Time Magazine Archive
Elsewhere in Belgium are several flat-roofed churches of basilican plan, some with ambulatories in the French style but no apsidal chapels.
From Architecture by Bell, Nancy R E Meugens
The Interior.—The natural division, in height, of an early church, whether basilican or domical, was into three stories—the ground level, the gallery level, and the clearstory or vault level.
From Byzantine Churches in Constantinople Their History and Architecture by Van Millingen, Alexander
It is a fine example of Brunelleschi's adaptation of the early basilican type, is borne upon graceful Corinthian columns and nobly proportioned.
From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.
The others are Lydd in Kent, where only indications of an arcade remain, and the complete basilican church of Wing, near Leighton Buzzard, which has a polygonal apse with a crypt below.
From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)
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