Porticus

A small room in a church, commonly as extensions to the north and south giving the building a cruciform plan

Not to be confused with Portico.

In this plan of St Mary's Church, Reculver, in north-east Kent, the porticus of the 7th-century church are represented by the extensions to north and south from the main structure, which is in yellow. Other colours represent later additions.

A porticus, in church architecture and archaeology, is usually a small room in a church.^[1] Commonly porticus form extensions to the north and south sides of a church, giving the building a cruciform plan.^{[Fn 1]} They may function as chapels, rudimentary transepts or burial-places. For example, Anglo-Saxon kings of Kent were buried in the south porticus at St Augustine's Abbey, with the exception of Eadberht II, who was buried in a similar location in St Mary's Church, Reculver.^[3]

This feature of church design originated in the late Roman period and continued to appear in those built on the European continent and, in Anglo-Saxon England, until the 8th century.^[4]

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Footnotes

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   ^ The nominative plural of the fourth-declension, feminine Latin noun "porticus" is "porticūs".^[2]
   

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   ^ Lewis, C.T.; Short, C., eds. (n.d.). "porticus". A Latin Dictionary. www.perseus.tufts.edu. Archived from the original on 31 January 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2018.
   


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   ^ Kelly 2008, pp. 78–9.
   


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   ^ Cherry 1981, p. 168.
   

Bibliography

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  Cherry, B. (1981) [1976], "Ecclesiastical architecture", in Wilson, D.M., The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England, Cambridge University Press, pp. 151–200, ISBN 0-521-28390-6
  


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  Kelly, S. (2008), "Reculver Minster and its early charters", in Barrow, J.; Wareham, A., Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks, Ashgate, pp. 67–82, ISBN 978-0-7546-5120-8
  

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