late tenth century Leo of Naples ‘Letter of Alexander the Great to Aristotle’ Alexander

At this time the fabric of this church was so much enlarged that one might say of it, as the learned doctors do of well-fashioned churches, that it was formed after the image of the human body. For it had, as can still be seen, a chancel which, with the sanctuary, is like the head and neck; the choir with its stalls the breast; the transept projecting as two sleeves or wings on each side of the choir, the arms and hands; the crossing of the bell tower the uterus; and the lower arm of the cross, displaying symmetrically two aisles to the north and south, the thighs and shins.