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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 862 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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THOLOBATE (Gr. bb)sos, a circular structure, See also:dome, and Barns, a See also:base)  , the architectural See also:term given to the cylindrical See also:drum on which a See also:dome is raised . In the earlier See also:Byzantine churches, the dome rested See also:direct on the pendentives and the windows were pierced in the dome itself; in later examples, between the See also:pendentive and the dome an intervening circular See also:wall was built, in which the windows were pierced, and this is the type which was universally employed by the architects of the See also:Renaissance, of whose See also:works the best-known examples are those of St See also:Peter at See also:Rome, St See also:Paul's in See also:London, and the churches of the Invalides, the Val de See also:Grace and the See also:Sorbonne in See also:Paris .

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