Vaults appear to have been early applied to the basilican type of plan; for instance, at St Irene.    From Wordnik.com.  [Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 4 "Bulgaria" to "Calgary"] Reference

It is also believed that the cardinal's hat is a modification of the umbrella in the basilican churches.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II] Reference

In general, Gallic churches are supposed to have been basilican, with all the poverty of the older style.    From Wordnik.com.  [Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1] Reference

Brixworth, Northants: other basilican plans 21 17.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference

Ravenna, the ordinary basilican type is the more convenient.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference

Relative advantages of the basilican and the centralised plan 12 9.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference

Torcello and other Italian churches, of the basilican type of plan.    From Wordnik.com.  [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Norwich A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference

Franciscan churches, which otherwise retain many basilican features.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

The basilican style was complete in itself, possessing no seeds of further growth.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

It is always probable that the basilican plan had its origin in a plan originally aisleless.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference

Occasionally the basilican arrangement was followed, with columnar arcades separating the aisles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

The vaulted half-dome of the basilican apse was a simple matter, compared with the mighty dome of.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference

In fact, however, before this stage of development was reached, the older basilican design had undergone another modification.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy] Reference

In England, as in other portions of the Roman empire, we might naturally expect to find the basilican plan applied to the earliest.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference

+ The decline and fall of Rome arrested the development of the basilican style in the West, as did the Arab conquest later in Syria.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

Greek revival in Germany, and produced a number of churches and a few secular buildings in the basilican, Romanesque, and Gothic styles.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

But the basilican style, which had so well served her purposes in the earlier centuries and on classic soil, was ill-suited to the new conditions.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

At Santa Sophia, the basilican chancel forms an indissoluble part of a centralised plan; but this feat is beyond the reach of an ordinary architect.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference

+ Along with these modifications of the basilican plan should be noticed a great increase in the height and slenderness of all parts of the structure.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

The churches were nearly all vaulted, but the plans were basilican, with such variations as resulted from efforts to meet the exigencies of vaulted construction.    From Wordnik.com.  [A Text-Book of the History of Architecture Seventh Edition, revised] Reference

+ the modified basilican plan with its triple aisles crossed by a projecting transept, and its three apses.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Norman churches still more decisively than it had in the basilican introduction of St. Augustine (A History of Gothic Art in England, II.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI] Reference

Exceptional occurrence of the basilican plan in.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church] Reference