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Part of a cruciform church - patterns
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transept
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ NOUN south ▪ Finally Theodora came to rest in the Dersingham chapel which formed the south transept looking towards the altar at right angles. ▪ Voice over To make the building safe, concrete joists will tie the south transept ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Transept \Tran"sept\, n. [Pref. trans- + L. septum an inclosure. See Septum .] (Arch.) 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 ...
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
"transverse section of a cruciform church," 1530s, from Medieval Latin transeptum , from Latin trans- "across" (see trans- ) + saeptum "fence, partition, enclosure" (see septum ). Rare before 1700. Related: Transeptal .
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. structure forming the transverse part of a cruciform church; crosses the nave at right angles
Usage examples of transept.
Thus the ridges of the two roofs are practically level, while the battlement of the transept is only on a level with the point at which the arches of the clerestory in the nave spring.
The absence of buttresses and the continuous row of arches cause a remarkable freedom from vertical lines in the exterior of the transepts, which is also characteristic of the interior.
The religious ceremonial with which the festival had opened was over, and down the aisles on either side, past the family altars, with their innumerable candles and lanterns and censers,--ceaselessly smoking in memorial of the honored dead,--the brothers of the Frari and the Servi marched in solemn procession to the chant of the acolytes, returning to mass themselves in the transepts, in fuller view of the pulpits, before the contest began.
The small wooden statues above the triptych, as also those above its modern companion in the south transept, are not less admirable than the triptych itself.
How different it must have looked with its vast mass seen from a distance rising above the wooded slopes, white as a solid block of Carara marble gleaming in the sun, and the lead-covered roofs of nave, transept, choir, and towers shining with a silvery lustre.
Under this arcading in the transept is a doorway, built by Lord Grimthorpe, partly from fragments of the west doorway of the old slype, and partly from his own design.
Lower now, his voice still pealed back from the high dome and filled the empty transepts with rumbling echoes.
Beyond that stretched the rest of the nave, with more side chapels, and the choir looming in the transept crossing.
Officers are in the transept: Chattan has the south arm of it all to himself, Waterhouse and Root and the SAS and USMC lieutenants have bunk beds in the north.
Well, in a cathedral you have the nave, then the transept, and then the apse, and around the apse is the choir screen.
They returned by a different route, along the east range of the cloister garth and into the church through a processional door in the south transept.
The strip cleaved the communion rail in two and then crossed the entire width of the church, finally reaching the corner of the north transept, where it arrived at the base of a most unexpected structure.
Gilbert planned and supervised the building of the cathedral, consisting of the main nave with aisles, transept (the crosslike arms projecting out from the nave), and chancel (altar portion).
In fact, with a final elbow placed sharply in the side of a noble girl (a child too young to complain to her nonobservant mother), Rani made a space for herself at the edge of the south transept.
As Kelson descended the steps, Charissa withdrew to the far side of the transept, perhaps forty feet away, waited as Kelson stooped to pick up the gauntlet.