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‖ ˈporticus
Pl. porticus, porticuses.
[L.; see prec.]
1. = prec.
1624B. Jonson Masque, Neptune's Triumph Wks. (Rtldg.) 640/2 Till the whole tree become a porticus, Or arched arbour. a1661B. Holyday Juvenal 146 Their baths..were of a less extent then their porticus or arch'd walks. 1682Sir T. Browne Chr. Mor. iii. §21 Sleep not in the Dogma's of the Peripatus, Academy, or Porticus: be a moralist of the mount. 1685H. More Paralip. Prophet. xxxii. 289 Porticus's likewise ran through the whole Ground-plot of the Temple. 1850J. H. Parker Gloss. Terms Grecian, Roman, Italian, & Gothic Archit. (ed. 5) I. 371 In the middle ages the word porticus was used for the entrance porch of a church, and for the apses... The structure over a tomb was termed porticulus and porticus. But porticus also retained its original sense of a long ambulatory... This porticus [by Cuthbert Tunstall at Durham] is a long gallery still in existence.
2. spec. in Anglo-Saxon Archit., an aisle or transept on the north or south side of a church, containing a chapel.
1888C. C. Hodges Abbey of St. Andrew, Hexham iii. 16 We may assume the word porticus to mean side chapels at the east and west ends of the aisles, as at Brixworth, on transepts, as at Norton, Stow, Sompting, and the church in Dover Castle. 1911A. H. Thompson Ground Plan Eng. Parish Ch. ii. 35 A feature of the early cathedral and of St Pancras at Canterbury, was the projection of porticus, porches or side chapels, from the nave. These were entered by archways pierced in the centre of the lateral walls. 1936A. W. Clapham Romanesque Archit. i. 8 Early Anglo-Saxon building... The southern group of churches..are distinguished by a simple aisle-less plan with an apsidal chancel and a series of annexes called ‘porticus’ adjoining or surrounding the nave. 1959H. M. Taylor in P. Clemoes Anglo-Saxons 142 From the earliest days the Saxon builders showed a fondness for separate chapels, or porticus, opening from the naves or chancels of their churches through comparatively small doorways. 1968J. W. Parker Great Ch. of St. Mary, Stow in Lindsey 11 What, we may ask, is the reason for the Saxon doorway into the transept? Did it lead to a porticus or chapel? 1971D. M. Wilson Anglo-Saxons (rev. ed.) ii. 49 Various ancillary elements were added to this basic pattern—porches, porticuses, crypts, towers, western galleries and even, in the latest period, transepts. 1975Archaeologia Aeliana III. 123 The church [of St. Peter, Bywell, Northumberland] formerly had porticus over-lapping the junction of nave and chancel on the north and south. The roof-raggle of the north porticus is still visible. 1977R. Morris in Binney & Burman Change & Decay 135/2 The digging of a trench around the base of a church to combat rising damp may destroy the remains of an Anglo-Saxon porticus. |