Adjoining the west end of the church is the fine cloister of the Teké of dervishes, probably on the lines of the old monastery. All the columns around the court are Byzantine, and one of them bears the inscription: the (column) of, Theophane--[Greek: hê tês Theôphanês] (Fig. 69). In the south wall is built a beautiful Byzantine doorway having jambs and lintel decorated on the face with a broad undercut scroll of flat leaves and four-petalled flowers, running between two rows of egg and dart, while on the intrados are two bands of floral ornaments separated by a bead moulding. One of the bands is clearly a vine scroll. The method employed here, of joining leaves to a centre so as to form spiral rosettes, is found also on some of the small capitals in S. Sophia. Similar rosettes appear in the decoration of the doorway to the Holy Sepulchre on the ivory in the Trivulce collection at Milan.[178]
[Illustration: Fig. 36.--THE CHURCH OF S. ANDREW IN KRISEI (RESTORED PLAN).]
[Illustration: PLATE XXX. S. ANDREW IN KRISEI. THE DECORATED DOORWAY IN THE CLOISTER. _To face page 118._]
[148] Typicon of George Kappodokes, quoted by the late lamented Père J. Pargoire in his masterly article on the 'Suburb and the Churches of S. Mamas,' published in the _Proceedings of the Institut archéologique russe à Constantinople_, vol. ix. fasc. 1, 32, 1904. In that article the writer demonstrates the erroneousness of the commonly received opinion, maintained, I regret, also in _Byzantine Constantinople_, pp. 89-90, that the suburb of S. Mamas was situated near Eyoub to the west of the Blachernae quarter. Père Pargoire proves that the suburb stood on the European shore of the Bosporus near Beshiktash. He also shows that the church of S. Mamas, near the Gate Xylokerkou, stood within the landward walls, somewhere between the Studion and S. Andrew in Krisei. Cf. _Itinéraires russes_, p. 102.
[149] The Anonymus (Banduri, iii. p. 54.) places S. Mamas, [Greek: ta Xylokerkou], within the city, between the monastery of Gastria and that of S. Saviour in the Chora. The suburb of S. Mamas he places (_ut supra_, pp. 57-58) outside the city between Galata and the Diplokionion (Beshiktash). This is only one proof of the correctness of Père Pargoire's position. See Pargoire, _ut supra_.