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A decorative architectural frame; usually found around a niche; door; or window.

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Aedicule

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A passageway around the apse or altar of a church.

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Ambulatory

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a vault rising from two walls that are circular in plan (as above the walls of an ambulatory) ??

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Annular Vault

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A recess; usually semicircular; in the wall of a building; commonly found at the east end of a church.

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Apse

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An unroofed interior courtyard or room in a Roman house; sometimes having a pool or garden; sometimes surrounded by columns

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Atrium

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A canopy placed over an honorific or sacred space such as a throne or church altar

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Baldachin

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In Christian architecture; a church somewhat resembling the Roman basilica; usually entered from one end and with an apse at the other.

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Basilica

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The fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts. In Roman basilicas and medieval churches; the windows that form the nave’s uppermost level below the timber ceiling or the vaults.

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Clerestory

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the intersection of nave and transept in a cruciform church

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crossing

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a subterranean chamber or vault; especially one beneath the main floor of a church; used as a burial place; a location for secret meetings; etc.

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Crypt

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A second story over the side aisles of a church below the clerestory

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Gallery

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a floor plan with four arms of equal length and at right angles.

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Greek Cross

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the design of a Christian basilca with a long arms and 3 shorter arms

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Latin Cross

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A building containing crypts or vaults for entombment; an above ground structure for burial.

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Mausoleum

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A vestibule leading to the nave of a church

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Narthex

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The principal longitudinal area of a church; extending from the main entrance or narthex to the chancel; usually flanked by aisles of less height and breadth: generally used only by the congregation.

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nave

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A square pillar

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pier

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A construction shaped like a triangle that transitions the space between flat walls and the base of a round dome (think Squinch!)

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pendentive

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round center of a stain glass window; A circular painting or relief sculpture

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roundel

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half a dome; especially as formed by a vertical section; as over a semicircular apse.

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semidomes

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Passage or open corridor of a basilica; church; hall; or other building that parallels the main space; usually on both sides; and is delineated by a row; or arcade; of columns or piers.

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side aisles

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the roughly triangular space enclosed by the curves of adjacent arches and a horizontal member connecting their vertexes

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spandrels

23
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what we do when we see “dat apse!”

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squinch

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War plunder; like stone from temples; used to construct new buildings. Most early christian buildings were made of this.

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spolia

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The part of a church with an axis that crosses the nave at a right angle.

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Transept