CHAPTER III.
EXTERIOR AND INTERIOR COMPARTMENTS.
The most perfect type of a church built in England, during the best ages of Church Architecture, may be said to contain the following essentials:—
1. The Ground Plan is after the form of the Latin Cross, and is divisible longitudinally into three portions; namely,
- The Choir,
- The Transepts,
- The Nave.
2. The Choir and the Nave, and occasionally the Transepts, are divided, by means of columns and arches, transversely into three portions, consisting of the
- Centre Aisle,
- North Aisle,
- South Aisle.
3. The Main Wall of each of the first-mentioned separate portions of the building is divisible, in the interior vertically into three portions, or Stories, consisting of
- The Ground-story,
- The Triforium or Blind-story,
- The Clere-story.