This church presents a good example of the greater interest taken during the later Byzantine period in the external appearance of a church. To the exterior of the walls and the apses some decoration is now applied. The dome is raised on a polygonal drum, with shafts at its angles, and an arched cornice over its windows; the roof gains more diversity of form and elevation by the multiplication of domes, by the protrusion of the vaults of the cross arms and of the apses, thus making the outward garb, so to speak, of the building correspond more closely to the figure and proportions of its inner body. In all this we have not yet reached the animation and grace of a Gothic cathedral, nor the stateliness that crowns an imperial mosque; but there is, at all events, a decided advance towards a fuller expression of artistic feeling. (See Plates LXXIV., LXXV.) [Illustration: PLATE LXXIII. S. THEODORE. CAPITAL ON THE SOUTHERNMOST COLUMN IN THE FAÇADE.] [Illustration: S. THEODORE. CAPITAL IN THE FAÇADE OF THE NARTHEX. _To face page 250._] [Illustration: FIGS. 84 AND 85.] [Illustration: FIGS. 86 AND 87.] [408] _De top. C.P._ iii. c. 6. [409] _Esq. top._ paragraphs 110, 114, 124, 125. [410] Banduri, ii. p. 38. [411] _Ibid._ i. p. 10. [412] Const. Porphyr, _De cer._ p. 623. [413] Banduri, iii. pp. 16, 48. [414] _Ibid._ i. p. 17. [415] Const. Porphyr, _De cer._ p. 640. [416] P. 140. [417] _Itin. russes_, pp. 105-6. [418] Banduri, i. p. 16; ii. p. 38. [419] P. 314. [420] See his paper in the _Mitteilungen des deutschen Excursions-Club, Konstantinopel_, Erstes Heft, 1888. [421] Banduri, p. 16. [422] See _The Monastery of St. Luke of Stiris_, p. 61. [423] _Altchristliche Baudenkmäler von K.P._ plates 34, 35. [424] Pulgher, _Les Anciennes Églises de C.P._ p. 23. [425] _History of Architecture_, i. 458. [426] _L'Art byzantin_, p. 126. [427] _History of Architecture_, vol. i. p. 458. [428] _Manuel d'art byzantin_, p. 414. CHAPTER XVII THE MONASTERY OF MANUEL, KEFELÉ MESJEDI