Note 265 — Chapter II · EARLY CHRISTIAN AND BYZANTINE-LOMBARDIC STYLES.
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The dates here given generally refer to the building now existing or known, and not always to the original foundation.
[Mr. G. G. Scott, in his work before referred to (p. 506), after giving a full quotation from Eusebius of Constantine’s basilica at Jerusalem, in which he points out that the orientation of primitive times is the reverse of that which has become general in later times, continues his enquiry into the evidence afforded by the numerous early basilicas in Rome itself. Of about fifty churches of early date, in forty of them the sanctuary is placed at the western end, and of the remaining ten (one of which is the great church of St. Paolo fuori le Mura), there are only seven which appear to have retained their original form, and which have an eastward sanctuary.
The exact orientation of the sanctuary in each case has been added to the list.—Ed.]