uildings in or
near Constantinople. In that collection is found a complete set of
drawings of this church, showing a chapel on both the north and south
sides of the building, and even giving measurements on the south
side. Texier's drawings are unfortunately very inaccurate, so that
little trust can be placed in any of them. In addition to the plan of
the church an elevation is given, and two sketches covered with
indications of elaborate decoration, but evidently quite imaginary. The
chapel on the north side is noticed by no other writer, and was probably
added by Texier for the sake of symmetry. That on the south side, as
shown by him, differs in some respects from Salzenberg. The only thing
certain is that a side chapel did exist here.

This church presents a good example of the greater interest taken during
the later Byzantine period in the external appearance of a church. To
the exterior of the walls and the apses some decoration is now applied.
The dome is raised on a polygonal drum, with shafts at its angles, and
an arched cornice over its windows; the roof gains more diversity of
form and elevation by the multiplication of domes, by the protrusion of
the vaults of the cross arms and of the apses, thus making the outward
garb, so to speak, of the building correspond more closely to the figure
and proportions of its inner body. In all this we have not yet reached
the animation and grace of a Gothic cathedral, nor the stateliness that
crowns an imperial mosque; but there is, at all events, a decided
advance towards a fuller expression of artistic feeling. (See Plates
LXXIV., LXXV.)

[Illustration: PLATE LXXIII.
S. THEODORE. CAPITAL ON THE SOUTHERNMOST COLUMN IN THE FACADE.]

[Illustration: S. THEODORE. CAPITAL IN THE FACADE OF THE NARTHEX.
_To face page 250._]

[Illustration: FIGS. 84 AND 85.]

[Illustration: FIGS. 86 AND 87.]

[408] _De top. C.P._ iii. c. 6.

[409] _Esq. top._ paragraphs 110, 114, 124, 125.

[410] Banduri, ii. p. 38.

[411] _Ibid._ i. p. 10.

[412] Const. Porphyr, _De cer._ p. 623.

[413] Banduri, iii. pp. 16, 48.

[414] _Ibid._ i. p. 17.

[415] Const. Porphyr, _De cer._ p. 640.

[416] P. 140.

[417] _Itin. russes_, pp. 105-6.

[418] Banduri, i. p. 16; ii. p. 38.

[419] P. 314.

[420] See his paper in the _Mitteilungen des deutschen Excursions-Club,
Konstantinopel_, Erstes Heft, 1888.

[421] Banduri, p. 16.

[422] See _The Monastery of St. Luke of Stiris_