What is "apsidal"

Usage examples of "apsidal".

The royal audience chamber is to be apsidal, lined with benches in elegant contemporary woods.

In all probability there was, according to the usual plan of Norman churches, a tower at the junction of the nave and transepts, and beyond this an apsidal choir.

One of the most glaring instances of injudicious restoration is to be met with in the apsidal chapel attached to the eastern side of the south transept.

No doubt this north transept had attached to its east wall an apsidal Norman chapel similar to that which still exists on the eastern side of the south transept, but this had to make way for an addition of two chapels, which we may assign, from the character of their architecture, to the latter end of the thirteenth century.

A sacristy of Early English date stands to the east of the apsidal chapel, and occupies the space between the apse and the south choir wall.

At the eastern side of the transept an arch opens out into an apsidal chapel, but pews block up the entrance.

This is a thirteenth-century addition to the church, and is of irregular shape, as it is wedged in, as it were, between the apsidal chapel on the east side of the transept and the south wall of the choir aisle.

It was practically safe to assume that the choir ended in an apse, though whether the aisles were also apsidal, or continued round a great apse as an ambulatory, was a debatable point.

The apses of the aisles were square externally, and apsidal internally.

There are two other notable instances of the three apsidal arrangement in England: S.

Over all this hushed desolation played a hideous leaden light as the declining afternoon sun sent its rays through the strange, half-blackened panes of the great apsidal windows.

Traces recently discovered seem to prove that it had an apsidal termination.

When the apsidal chapels were pulled down at the time the apse was destroyed, Marshall built the present chapels of St.