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Sentence Examples The squint gave a view of the altar to parishioners sitting in the lost north transept. In this way, the two small paintings thematically join the two transept chapels. Adjoining the S transept is the slype, a long narrow passage that was formerly covered by a barrel vault. By the Requiem Aeternam the choir was established in the body of the church, in the transept. The cross-shaped hall resembles an aircraft hangar or perhaps the transept and nave of a modern-day basilica. Even in the church, a carved stone head of uncertain origin was found buried in a wall above a window arch in the building's north transept. Eight hung in the nave and three in the apse, with an additional two in the transept. Set within the crossing of a church transept, Christ stands centered in the foreground, flanked by his Apostles, and administers the host. A side door will be opened by the Minster staff to give access to the side transept and the Chapter House. The climbers are working on top of the three-tiered presbytery and transept, which were built in the 13th century. A stone pinnacle on the central tower crashed down on to the south transept roof and several other pinnacles were found to be loose. The Dean announced that it was to be removed to the old choir school adjoining the south transept of the Minster and the Archbishop's Registry. The new tower, north transept extension, chapel and cloister bays are all built of cut stone laid with lime over solid brickwork. The choir is located behind the transept, is surrounded by a double ambulatory and is shielded from the rest of the building by a Gothic jube. The north transept houses a narrow, deep Saxon doorway of honey-coloured stone, which would originally have been lime-washed and over-painted with decorative designs. As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers. The transept, in line with the rest of the church, is remarkable for its octagonal cupola set over squinches and surmounted by a dome. It has a single eastern apse, a lofty transept, and five majestic nave aisles. Its two rose windows at each end of the transept are among Europe's biggest. The cupola of the Dome and the oval windows illuminate the transept and the dais of the baldachin, as seen from the choir of the monks. Show More Sentences The central nave has a barrel vault, and a dome with a lantern covers the transept. The rose window in the north transept portrays figures from the Old Testament. My own experience suggests that once the painterly decoration has been seen, a side door in the transept leads the way out. The vaults have ribs and tercerons in the east side, transept aisle and the last section of the epistle nave. They were transferred, undoubtedly in 1878, to the power full pillar-walls of the transept whose unhinged pilasters provide an appropriate frame. The main hall was flanked by two picture galleries, and the whole layout resembled a cathedral with a transept and a massive organ at the far end. The terms of his Orvieto contract reflect his celebrity as an architect, which is justified by his remedial work on the cathedral transept, apse, and roof. It is no coincidence that in the remodeling of the lower church at Assisi, the side chapel immediately adjacent to the north transept was dedicated to the Magdalen. The interior is divided into three naves, with a large transept surmounted by a domed octagonal. The eastern portico of the mosque is interrupted by a transept aisle with columned arches running vertical to the qibla wall. So the enlarged south transept took in the slype, and it occupied the end bay with the broad gallery and the sanctuary chamber filling the space above. The windows in the south east transept were destroyed in the second world war and replaced in the 1950s by a Hungarian refugee, Ervin Bossanyi. The transept includes an organ on one side, an ex-voto ship hanging down from the ribbed vault on the other. A triforium stands above the transept and the east side, which, on the exterior have six defensive round towers as buttresses. The building is located far from the Cathedral, between the apsidal area and the south-eastern section of the transept of the Cathedral. The galleried basilica with a nave and two aisles has a transept with a rectangular tower, a steep nave and a choir flanked by circular towers. In 1354 he contracted to paint an altarpiece for the Strozzi Chapel in the left transept of Santa Maria Novella, in Florence. Built on the model of the very famous abbey of Conques it includes a nave with five spans, flanked by very narrow aisles without transept. The arms of the transept, as wide and as high as the nave, comprise a single cross ribbed bay, resting on the figured corbelling. The building has a basilica floor plan and is divided into three naves covered with barrel vaults, with a transept crowned by a dome. Show More Sentences The ceiling of the transept aisle is higher than that of the qibla portico. Its regular position is in the southern transept, where it can accompany sacred services. On the right in the transept opposite the organ: a Pieta representing Mary, Mother of sorrows with her deceased son on her lap. Inside, the three naves of the temple are divided into five sections, four of equal dimensions, and the fifth one, wider, is the transept. It had a west chancel, a three-aisle nave, a single-aisle transept and an east choir with three apses. Here, in addition to the eastern dome and south-eastern tower, we see a portion of this gallery as it engirdles the nave and the south transept walls. A fire in 1866 destroyed the north transept, which was never rebuilt. In contrast to the long, timber-roofed nave crossed at one end by a shorter transept, Eastern churches had four wings of equal size projecting from a central, square, domed crossing area. It has a cruciform plan with an octagonal chapter house attached to the north transept, a central tower and two towers at the west front. They have simple lancet windows, including the Five Sisters in the north transept. In the south transept is a rose window whose glass dates from about 1500 and commemorates the union of the royal houses of York and Lancaster. The severe exterior recomposes itself in a fragmented, multiperspectival image of a great city, glimpsed through windows, the great glass vault and the glazed transept within it. It is orientated east west and has the shape of a Greek cross. The church is composed of only one nave, a transept, a choir bay and a semicircular apse. Work began on the chapter house and its vestibule that links it to the north transept after the transepts were completed. A basilican church with a centrally planned eastern end, Santo Spirito is ringed by semicircular chapels opening off the dome-vaulted side aisles, the transept, and the apse. It has a Latin cross floor plan with a wooden roof over the transept, and the exterior is noteworthy for its Mudéjar tower with semicircular arches on the bell level, which is covered by a hip roof. The light inside the cathedral is also exceptional owing to the extremely high vaults, the large number of openings, and the glazed triforium above the choir and transept. In 1974 the Bruce Memorial Window was installed in the north transept, commemorating the 700th anniversary of the year of his birth. He added a new feature, the transept, a lateral aisle crossing the nave just before the apse, and thus created the cross-shaped plan that became standard for churches in western Europe throughout the Middle Ages. The first strike destroyed the high altar, while the second strike on the north transept left a hole in the floor above the crypt. Show More Sentences At Sandwich a loud noise emanated from the Channel, as church arches cracked and the gable end of a transept fell at St Peter's Church. He designed the Romanesque church of the abbey, daringly placing the transept crossing at the top of the mount. A modern copy has been placed in the much restored original group in the north transept of Canterbury Cathedral. However, the most outstanding feature of the institution is the chapel, on a floor plan in the shape of a Greek cross, with a single nave and transept and a roof with a parabolic cross-section reinforced by transverse arches. Its inside is very much typical of these Jesuits buildings: Latin-cross planned with a discreet transept and chapels connected through the buttresses. Traditionally, churches are built in a cross configuration, with the nave running west to east, and crossed by the transept, which runs north-south. Represented with the cruciferous stag on the stain-glass windows of the transept, saint Hubert, the patron saint of the parish, is also featured in the central nave: a statue made by Francis Jacobs de Hermée. Gavin Dunbar, who followed him in 1518, completed the structure by adding the two western spires and the southern transept. The transept arms are only a little lower than the main nave, so that a large area is encompassed, rounded off by the choir and the Apses with their pointed elbow and slim tracery windows. Wilberforce was buried in the north transept, close to his friend, the former Prime Minister, William Pitt. This picture was subsequently published showing the South transept alight with a list of North Yorkshire firefighters attending. These improvements included an interior cupola, angular piers, discharging archs and the four chapels located at the corners of the transept crossing. Many crews worked for hours and some were on high levels of the minster at the time when the South transept roof fell in. Its interior is divided into three vaulted naves and a transept with a dome, and its façade has a beautiful stone rococo entrance incorporating some features that call to mind the late Hispano-American baroque style. The base of the church tower has earlier remnants of a previous building and an earlier roofline of a former transept can be detected in the tower. After the ventilation released the smoke, however, a pile of timber covering the whole of the south transept floor to a height of at least six feet could be seen. The latter bomb is believed to have detonated in the upper interior above the north transept and the force was sufficient to shift the entire dome laterally by a small amount. For this reason the transepts of English cathedrals are longer than those in most other countries, and there is often a second transept, as at Salisbury. Quoin stones in the south transept of Stow Minster, Lincolnshire. During the rebuilding, heraldic stained glass installed in the north transept in 1638 was transferred to a window in the north aisle of the new church. Show More Sentences In about 1430 the south transept apse was removed to make way for a chapel, founded by Lady Margaret Holland and dedicated to St Michael and All Angels. The sculpture Madonna and Child, which can be seen in the transept, is believed to be Michelangelo's only sculpture to have left Italy within his lifetime. The tomb of Walter de Gray was erected in the south transept. Other important features being the unusual style of the north transept and the north porch, also of the 13th century, but greatly extended in the 16th. Diverse internal transept chamber plans exist within the group. Examples from Classical Literature Enter its great gloom, go forward until you are opposite the rose window in the north transept, and look up. Only the chancel with its flanking chapels and the transept have been built. A flying buttress of very slight proportions will be seen on the north side between the north transept and the north porch. However, it was these portions of the transept and the apse which had the least suffered. The sedilia in the chancel and the aumbry in the north transept should be seen. Over 200 feet long, it has a dome-surmounted transept in the middle, and a barrel vault divided into panels. The plan consists of a nave, with aisles and lateral chapels, transept and choir, with a deambulatory at a slightly lower level. It consists of a choir with deambulatory and apsidal chapels, a transept, nave and aisles. The sub-arches appear to be about the same date as the transept vaulting, as they have the dogtooth ornament in their mouldings. The profiles were alike in both cathedrals, and so were the sexpartite vaulting and the embryo transept. The muniment Room, which is approached from the south choir transept, is part of a two-storied building, octagonal in plan. There are no signs of any parclose screens across the transept, and the position of the chapel of Sta. The corbel table around the presbytery and transept walls is bold and peculiar, and is of two patterns. Two flying buttresses rise from the corners of the nave and transept aisles to the corbel table of the clerestory range. The altars at each end of the transept are of malachite, given by the Czar of Russia. Next, Pierre turned into the transept on the left, where stand the confessionals. The dimensions of the transept are 40 feet by 34 feet, and 58 feet in height. The other is in the north wall of the transept, and opens into the choir vestry. On the eastern side of this transept is St. Paul's Chapel, now used as a vestry. Notice the marks of the gable of Lady chapel in the transept wall. Show More Sentences Its total length is about 265 feet with a transept of about 109 feet long. The apse is flamboyant, as are also the windows of the south transept. The 700-year-old building suffered serious damage to the south transept but the famous Rose Window survived. It is of five lights, and occupies the entire breadth of the transept. The choir is nearly of the same kind of architecture as the transept. A SKULL forms part of a collection of bones that have been found among the stepped footings of Westminster Abbey's south transept. Seating myself in a corner of the transept where I could see all and be little seen, I with the rest awaited the coming of the overdue bridegroom. Shadows of the Wanderer is a monumental sculpture by Brazilian born British artist Ana Maria Pacheco and currently on display in the North transept of Norwich Cathedral. Find more words! 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