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porticus logo #20688In architecture, a small porch built on both north and south sides of some English pre-Conquest churches, and thus forming rudimentary transepts. ...
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Porticus

Porticus logo #20434A 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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porticus logo #24164(Latin; pl. porticus: porch). An open structure with a roof supported by columns. In a Roman theatre the covered colonnade at back of cavea or behind scene house. Behind the scenes porticus are to be built; to which, in the case of sudden showers, the people may retreat from the theatre.
Found on https://www.whitman.edu/theatre/theatretour/glossary/glossary.htm
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