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Melbourne Church, Derbyshire. Jfrarlng in his defcription of his churches, which probably had neither PILLA.RS nor SIDE-ISLES [;/]. And if the weft end of the churches he defcrihes, were divided off, like this at Melbourne, for the Por- ticus [0], it is alfo probable they were fubdivided, in like manner, into fmaller portions, and each portion or portico was dedicated to a favourite faint, as w r ere thofe of St. Andrew at Rochefter, &c [p]. [] The plan of Dunwich Church in my former Eflay (Archaeolog. Vol. XII. PI. XXXVII. ) has neither pillars nor Jide-iflcs it is divided into three apartments the Anti-'Tcmple* , the Temple f , and the SanfJuary^. It is probable that the Anti- Temple, which in this inftance is the greateft portion of the church, is the part which Eede names the porticus, therefore Collier's obfervation is right ; (Ch. Hid. Vol. I. p. 86.) and fo indeed we may further infer, from Mr. Bentham's quotations from Bede, &c. " that bodies were not at that time buried but in the porticus^ of the " church ||." [0] See the plan of Melbourne Church, PI. XX. the walls A B and C, which now ftop up the arches of the porticus, are of fubfequent workmanfhip. The Se&ioti PL XXI. (hews them open the wall D is original, and divides the chambers over the porticos from the nave. [/>] " The entrance into the interior Nartbex in the church of Paulinus, was out of the Portico's, or Cloyflers, before the church, by three inner porches 4-, and as many gates opening out of them, the middle one being the greateft and higheft of the three." X n . Ch s . ch. iv. p. 291. The Narthex, or Ante-Temple, where the Penitents and Catechumens flood. f The Naos, or Temple, where Communicants had their refpeftive places. J The Bema, or Sanftuary, where the Clergy flood to officiate at the Altar. Bingham's Antiq. of the X". Church, ch. iii. p. jgj. " Cone. Nanneftens. c.6. In ecclefia nullatenus fepeliantur, fed in Atrio, aut Porticu, aut in Exedris Ecclefiae." || " Whilft we are peaking of the Ante-Temple, it will not be improper to obferve, that for many years after burying-places were allowed in cities, they were ftill kept out of that which was ftd&ly and properly called the church, and only allowed in thofe parts of the Ante-Temple, the Atrium, and Portico's, as appears from a Canon of the Council of Nantes, An. 658, which pro- hibits any to be bxtried in the church, but allows of it in the Atrium, or Portico's, or Exedrse of the Church." Bingham's Antiq. of X n . Ch s . B. viii. p. 290. 4- Thefe porches and gates are fometimes called Arcus, from the manner of their ftrufture, which was arch work. Ibid. Qq 3 It