[517] Rock, op. cit. I. pp. 172-6.
[518] R. Phené Spiers, in his edition of Fergusson’s Hist. of Architecture, 1893, I. p. 506 n.
[519] Spiers, loc. cit. (authorities given). Concerning the origin of the Christian basilica, see O. M. Dalton, Guide to Early Christian and Byzantine Antiq. (Brit. Mus.), 1903, pp. 32-5.
[520] Spiers, loc. cit.; B. Fletcher and B. F. Fletcher, Hist. of Architecture, 5th edition, 1905, pp. 136, 179-80.
[521] R. Sturgis, Dict. of Archit. and Building, 1902, III. p. 34 (Art. “Orientation”); Reusens, op. cit. t. I. p. 147.
[522] Sir E. Beckett, A Book on Building, 2nd edition, 1880, p. 85.
[523] Fergusson, Illustrated Handbook of Architecture, p. 516 n. The probable Western “orientation” of the crypts of the early minsters of Ripon and Hexham has been thought to be due to Italian influence (F. Bond, Gothic Architecture in England, 1905, p. 155 n.).
[524] W. Smith, Concise Dict. Bible, 1900, Art. “Temple.”
[525] For example, Psalm lxxxviii. 13; cxix. 147; Wisdom of Solomon, xvi. 28; Zech. xiv. 4. See also the remarks in The Evil Eye, pp. 65-6. Walcott, Sacred Archaeol., art. “Orientation,” has much curious lore.
[526] Ezek. viii. 16. The influence of the sun on architecture and mysticism is dealt with by W. R. Lethaby, Architecture, Mysticism, and Myth, 1892, pp. 174-200.