Details Title: definitions Description: Romanesque Total Flash Cards: 29 Created: 06/14/2009 12:27:07		New Users: To study from this flashcard set, or to create your own your own study flash cards, REGISTER HERE. Existing Users: CLICK HERE. Additional Architecture Flashcards
Cards in this set: Term abbey Definition a monastery or convent Term aisle Definition a part of a church divided laterally from the nave by a row of pillars or columns Term ambulatory Definition a continuous aisle around a circulate building; for example: the aisle around the east end of a Christian church Term apse Definition a semicircular or polygonal projections or terminations Term apsidal Definition having semicircular or polygonal projections or terminations Term cathedral Definition a large or important church; the principal church of a bishops's and one that contains his official throne Term central crossing Definition the main or largest intersection of the nave and transept in a cruciform church Term chancel Definition the often enclosed space around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir Term chapel Definition a place of worship that is smaller than and subordinate to a church Term clerestory Definition the upper part of the nave, transepts, and choir of a church, containing windows used to let in light and for ventilation Term chevet Definition the French word for the combination of an apse, its surrounding ambulatory, and radiating chapels Term cloister Definition a covered walk w/ an open colonnade on one side, running along the inside walls of buildings that face a quadrangle, esp. w/in a monastery or convent Term crypt Definition an underground vault or chamber, esp. one beneath a church that is used as a burial place Term cupula Definition a domed roof or ceiling, usually in miniature, w/ a lantern on top, and surmounting a roof Term flying buttress Definition a structure, usually brick or stone, built against a wall for support, reinforcement or to resist the pressure of an arch or vault above, particularly one that springs from a solid pier and abuts against another part of the structure to receive thrust Term gable Definition the triangular wall section at the ends of a pitched roof, bounded by the two roof slopes and the ridge pole Term groin vault Definition a vault (or arched structure, usually of stone, brick or concrete, forming a ceiling or roof), formed by the intersection at right angles of two barrel vaults Term narthex Definition a portico, entrance hall or lobby of an early Christian or Byzantine church or basilica, leading to the nave of a church Term nave Definition the central part of a church, (west of the crossing) extending from the narthex to the chancel and flanked by aisles Term pilaster Definition a rectangular column w/ a capital and base, set into a wall as an ornamental motif Term radiating chapels Definition places of worship that are smaller than and subordinate to a church that are spread out radially, as the spokes of a wheel Term ribbed vault Definition a vault (arched structure, usually of stone, brick, or concrete, forming a ceiling or roof) which is a development of the groin vault, where arched ribs are built across the sides and diagonals of the vaulted bay to form a support for the infilling Term sanctuary Definition the most holy part of a sacred place Term transept Definition the 2 lateral arms of a cruciform church, projecting to the north and south, usually between the nave and chancel Term transverse arch Definition an arch situated or crosswise to the main axis of a building Term triforium Definition a gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church Term turret Definition a small ornamental tower or tower-shaped projection on a building Term vestibule Definition a small entrance hall or lobby Term church Definition a building for public, esp. Christian, worship