Fergusson, James: A history of architecture in all countries, from the earliest times to the present day: in five volumes (Band 1) (London, 1893)

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EAELY CHRISTIAN ARCHITECTURE.

Part II.

these were reached a vaulted roof was introduced, and with it all the
features of the style were to a great extent modified.

The church known as that of Sta. Pudentiana is one of the very
oldest and consequently one of the most interesting of those in Rome.

404. Interior of the Basilica of St. Lorenzo (fuori le Mura).

It stands on substructions of ancient Roman date, which probably
formed part of the Thernue of Novatus or the house of the Senator
Pudens, who is mentioned by St. Paul at the end of his Second
Epistle to Timothy, and with whom he is traditionally said to have
resided during his sojourn in Rome. The vaults beneath the church
certainly formed part of a Roman mansion, so apparently do those
buildings, shown on the plan, and placed behind and on one sicle of
the sanctuary ; but whether these were used for Christian purposes
before the erection of the church in the fourth century is by no means
certain. In plan the church remains in all probability very much as
originally designed, its most striking peculiarity being the segmental