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{{Short description|Architectural element}}
{{Use British English|date=January 2017}}
{{hatnote|This article concerns the ecclesiastical architectural term. For other uses, see [[portico]].}}
[[File:Plan of St Mary's Church, Reculver.jpg|thumb|300px|alt=refer to caption|In this plan of [[St Mary's Church, Reculver]], in north-east [[Kent]], the porticus of the 7th-century church are represented by the extensions to north and south from the main structure, which is in yellow. Other colours represent later additions.]]
In [[church architecture]], a '''porticus''' ([[Latin]] for "[[portico]]"){{efn|Most Latin terms ending in {{lang|la|-us}} are [[masculine (grammar)|masculine]] and form their [[nominative case|nominative]] [[plural (grammar)|plural]] with {{lang|la|-i}} but {{lang|la|porticus}} is a [[feminine (grammar)|feminine]] [[Latin declension#d4|fourth-declension]] noun whose plural is also {{lang|la|porticus}}, sometimes differentiated with a [[macron (diacritic)|macron]] as {{lang|la|porticūs}}.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dporticus |editor1-last=Lewis |editor1-first=C.T. |editor2-last=Short |editor2-first=C. |work=A Latin Dictionary |title=porticus |publisher=www.perseus.tufts.edu |date=n.d. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160131221317/http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=Perseus%3Atext%3A1999.04.0059%3Aentry%3Dporticus |archivedate=31 January 2016 |url-status=live |accessdate=6 September 2018 |df=dmy-all}}</ref> The English plural form is ''porticuses'', when the term is not simply translated as ''portico''.}} is usually a small room in a church.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.digital-documents.co.uk/archi/gloschur.htm |title=Glossary of ecclesiastical terms |publisher=Archi UK |year=n.d. |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20160629130240/http://www.digital-documents.co.uk/archi/gloschur.htm |archivedate=29 June 2016 |url-status=live |accessdate=28 January 2017|df=dmy}}</ref> Commonly, porticuses<!--use English--> form extensions to the north and south sides of a church, giving the building a [[cruciform]] [[Plan view|plan]]. They may function as [[chapel]]s, rudimentary [[transept]]s or burial-places. For example, [[Anglo-Saxon]] [[Kingdom of Kent|kings of Kent]] were buried in the south porticus at [[St Augustine's Abbey]] in [[Canterbury]], with the exception of [[Eadberht II]], who was buried in a similar location in [[St Mary's Church, Reculver]].{{sfn|Kelly|2008|pp=78–9}}

This feature of church design originated in the late [[History of the Roman Empire|Roman]] period and continued to appear in those built on the [[Continental Europe|European continent]] and, in [[History of Anglo-Saxon England|Anglo-Saxon England]], until the 8th century.{{sfn|Cherry|1981|p=168}}

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===Bibliography===
*{{citation|last=Cherry|first=B.|chapter=Ecclesiastical architecture|editor-last=Wilson|editor-first=D.M.|title=The Archaeology of Anglo-Saxon England|publisher=Cambridge University Press|year=1981|origyear=1976|pages=151–200|isbn=0-521-28390-6}}
*{{citation|last=Kelly|first=S.|editor-last=Barrow|editor-first=J.|editor2-last=Wareham|editor2-first=A.|chapter=Reculver Minster and its early charters|title=Myth, Rulership, Church and Charters Essays in Honour of Nicholas Brooks|publisher=Ashgate|year=2008|pages=67–82|chapter-url=https://books.google.com/books?id=W2spwSjY9YcC&pg=PA67|isbn=978-0-7546-5120-8}}

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