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| a part of a church divided laterally from the nave by a row of pillars or columns |
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| a continuous aisle around a circulate building; for example: the aisle around the east end of a Christian church |
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| a semicircular or polygonal projections or terminations |
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| having semicircular or polygonal projections or terminations |
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| a large or important church; the principal church of a bishops's and one that contains his official throne |
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| the main or largest intersection of the nave and transept in a cruciform church |
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| the often enclosed space around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir |
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| a place of worship that is smaller than and subordinate to a church |
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| the upper part of the nave, transepts, and choir of a church, containing windows used to let in light and for ventilation |
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| the French word for the combination of an apse, its surrounding ambulatory, and radiating chapels |
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| 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 |
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| an underground vault or chamber, esp. one beneath a church that is used as a burial place |
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| a domed roof or ceiling, usually in miniature, w/ a lantern on top, and surmounting a roof |
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| 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 |
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| the triangular wall section at the ends of a pitched roof, bounded by the two roof slopes and the ridge pole |
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| 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 |
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| a portico, entrance hall or lobby of an early Christian or Byzantine church or basilica, leading to the nave of a church |
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| the central part of a church, (west of the crossing) extending from the narthex to the chancel and flanked by aisles |
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| a rectangular column w/ a capital and base, set into a wall as an ornamental motif |
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| places of worship that are smaller than and subordinate to a church that are spread out radially, as the spokes of a wheel |
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| 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 |
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| the most holy part of a sacred place |
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| the 2 lateral arms of a cruciform church, projecting to the north and south, usually between the nave and chancel |
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| an arch situated or crosswise to the main axis of a building |
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| a gallery of arches above the side-aisle vaulting in the nave of a church |
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| a small ornamental tower or tower-shaped projection on a building |
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| a small entrance hall or lobby |
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| a building for public, esp. Christian, worship |
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