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Rh width or length of the main aisle. Still the building, as a whole, is—or rather was before the completion of the rebuilding of St. Paul's

{{c|{{smaller block|278. View of Sta. .Maria Maggiore. {From Guteusohn and Knapp.)}}}} —the very best of the older wooden-roofed churches of Christendom, and the best model from which to study the merits and defects of this style of architecture.

Another mode of getting over the threat defect of high walls over the pillars was adopted, as in Sta. Agnese and St. Lorenzo, of using a