crypto-porticus
A concealed or covered passage, generally underground, though lighted and ventilated from the open air. One of the best-known examples is the crypto-porticus under the palaces of the Caesars in Rome.
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A side chapel or chapels. In the early Anglo-Saxon church it was not permitted for burials to be made in the body of the church, but they were allowed in the flanking chapels or porticus.
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Cryptoporticus - Usually a slightly sunken arcade or barrel vault creating a long walkway or storage area. Architecturally, they often also function as buttressing for larger, adjacent structures.
Quadriporticus - also known as a quadriportico - a four-sided porticus. The closest modern parallel would be a colonnaded quadrangle.
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porticus), a term in architecture for the covered entrance porch to a building, which is carried by columns, and either constitutes the whole front of the building, as in the Greek and Roman temples, or forms an important feature, ...
Porticus (plural: porticus)Subsidiary room or cell opening from the main body of an Anglo-Saxon church.Portland stoneA hard, durable white limestone from the Isle of Portland in Dorset.
[Middle English porche, from Old French, from Latin porticus, portico, from porta, gate; see per-2 in Indo-European roots.]
porch [pɔːtʃ]
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Portico: A gallery which opens onto the exterior of the church and is supported by columns. From the Latin porticus for "arcade" or "gallery." ...
An exonarthex may also serve as terminating transverse portico of a colonnaded atrium or quadriporticus. In a general medieval sense, an enclosed covered antechurch at the main entrance, sometimes called a Galilee.
PORTICUS: a north or south projection at the junction of the nave and chancel in a Saxon church, which differs from a transept in being entirely closed off from the rest of the building.
 See also: Portico, Church, Porch, House, Architecture
  
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