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transept::noun | Spocien Dictionary
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Examples of transept
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In the center of the east transept window, she encounters the resurrected Christ.
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The nave is surmounted by an emispherical dome at the crossing with the transept.
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The windows in the transept are slightly larger and have a more complex design.
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The central transept divides the arcades into two halves each with eleven arches.
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The first phase concerned the south transept and the towers, as early as 1170.
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It is a single-nave church with a transept and an oval dome over the crossing.
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It was later moved to its present position at the front of the north transept.
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A well-known example in England is that in the north transept of Westminster Abbey.
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The north transept was for the diplomatic corps and the honorary pallbearers.
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- Structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles
- The transept is the area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture. The transept separates the nave from the sanctuary, whether apse, choir, chevet, presbytery or chancel. ...
- Madonna University is a private, non-profit, Catholic university located in suburban Livonia, Michigan, on the western perimeter of metropolitan Detroit. Conducted by the Felician Sisters, it has extension campuses in Southwest Detroit, Orchard Lake, Michigan (at the St. ...
- The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. ...
- The section of a cross-shaped (cruciform) church at right angles to the nave. It is also the name for the aisle in front of the first pew, that separates the nave from the chancel.
- In medieval times, it became necessary to increase space near the chancel to accommodate large numbers of clergy, the choirs, or members of religious orders. ...
- A transverse tunnel or gallery joining the two sides of a mined station, to allow the bridge to overlook both platforms. French: transept.
- A cross-ways compartment of a church, generally used as a pair leading off the crossing at the junction of the nave and choir.
- If the nave and apse constitute the long beam of a cross, the transepts make up the cross bar. These are large "bays" that extend from either side of the nave. In the Cathedral Basilica of Saint Louis, they feature large mosaic-covered half domes.
