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Lectures on the rise and development of medieval architecture; vol. 2

Note 17 — LECTURE XI. The Transition.

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The word translated “aisle” is, in the life of the Confessor as published by the Master of the Rolls given as “abitus;” but, on examining the original in the British Museum with the aid of the experts there, I find a mark of abbreviation making it really “ambitus.” (G. G. S. 1878.)

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