Identifier: monumentsofearly00lowr (find matches)
Title: Monuments of the early church
Year: 1901 (1900s)
Authors: Lowrie, Walter, 1868-1959
Subjects: Christian antiquities Christian art and symbolism Church architecture Church history -- Primitive and early church, ca. 30-600
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan Company London, MacMillan & Co.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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^ were used there for the stair-ways which ascended to the upper galleries of the church ; andthey served as places of refuge in regions where there was
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Fig. 63. — Memorial church of S. Simon Stj-lites, Kalat-Seman, Syria. danger of sudden attack. In the West only a solitary towerwas used, and it was never a part of the architectural scheme.The towers were either square or round in plan, and were di-vided into about a half-dozen low stories. The tower, however,was by no means a general necessity, and the majority of thechurches remained without it. It is probable that in the Westthey were from the beginning employed for hanging bells;but the date of the introduction of church bells is as undeter-mined as that of the construction of towers. The ancienttowers which remain in Rome and Eavenna are of mediaeval 184 AUCIIITECTUUE construction in the upper part, and even the bases give no cer-tain clew to their date. Several of the Syrian sites afford good examples of the com-plex of ecclesiastical buildings which often surrounded thechurch (Fig. 02). Jfoiiasteria seems to have been the namegiven to small chapels built in the vicinity of a

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