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PORTICO (Ital. for " porch," Lat. porticus)

This article appears in Volume V22, Page 118 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: POL-PRE
PORTICO (Ital. for " porch," Lat. porticus) , a
term
  in
architecture
  for the covered entrance
porch
  to a building, which is carried by columns, and either constitutes the whole front of the building, as in the
Greek
  and Roman temples, or forms an important feature, as the portico of the Pantheon at Rome attached to the rotunda. A circular projecting portico, such as those to the north and
south
  transepts of St
Paul
 's
Cathedral
 , and that which forms the west entrance of St
Mary
  le Strand, is known as
cyclostyle
 . The
term
  porticus is used to distinguish the entrance portico in an amphiprostylar or
peripteral
  temple from that behind which is called the posticum.


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