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 60 Early Christian Architecture. nave eighty feet across, but with a very small apsis or choir. The two small basilicas of Santa Agnese and San Lorenzo, at the grates of Rome, were erected in the end of the sixth and the beginning of the seventh centuries, and remain, comparatively speaking, little altered. They have their side-aisles in two stories. 4<^ Mm*2i Fig. 31. — Interior of the Basilica of St. Paul, Rome. The church of St. Apollinare in Classe, at the old port of Ravenna, about three miles from the city, is a fine basilica of the first class, erected between 538 and 540. The internal details are extremely beautiful, but the outside is painfully plain and unembellished, as is the