Aisles can also be seen in shops, warehouses, and factories, where rather than seats they have shelving to either side. In warehouses and factories aisles may consist of storage pallettes and in factories aisles may separate work areas.
Side Aisles of Sens Cathedral. Note that the transverse ribs and diagonal ribs are semi-circular. This creates a domed effect leading to pockets of space .
Notre Dame de Paris
Facade 1200-1250.
rolling in the aisles roaring with laughter, giggling, chuckling, sniggering, cracking up (informal), chortling, guffawing, tittering, convulsed (informal), in stitches, busting a gut (informal), creasing up (informal), ...
Atrium: An open courtyard at the entrance of a church, usually surrounded by covered aisles. The atrium of the Early Christian church was originally a place for the catechumens to wait during the celebration of the Eucharist.
barrel vaults intersect one another, the weight is carried on to the piers at their intersection and the thrust is transmitted to the outer cross walls; thus in the Roman reservoir at Baiae, known as the piscina mirabilis, a series of five aisles ...
The main altar, the focal point of the building, stood in the apse, the semicircular or polygonal recess at the end of the church, girded by the ambulatory, a semicircular extension of the aisles flanking the nave.
The date is not recorded; no early examples remain in Lombardy, but in Normandy we find, about 1050, churches which possess aisles covered by square, groined vaults, with the transverse arches showing.
The sanctuary consists of a small area divided into three aisles parallel to the qibla wall. Initially the mosque would have been covered with a flat hypostyle roof but it is now covered with shallow brick domes.
Ambulatory - a roofed passageway, enclosing the apse, and linking the aisles which flank the nave.
Apse - a semicircular or polygonal extension to the chancel, usually vaulted.
During the Roman Empire this was a type of large public building with an open interior and usually with side aisles separated from the main space by rows of evenly spaced columns.
"Without staying to examine the whole structure of a basilica, the reader will easily understand thus much of it: that it had a nave and two aisles, the nave much higher than the aisles; that the nave was separated from the aisles by rows of shafts, ...
The addition of side aisles and an ambulatory was also made to help account for the pilgrimage, so pilgrims could enter and view without disturbing or overcrowding the parish.
The form of the early Christian church, a central high nave with clerestory, lower aisles along the sides only, with a semicircular apse at the end. Often preceded by a vestibule (narthex) and atrium.
Chapel - A small room opening off the choir or the aisles.
Choir - The eastern end of the church from the crossing to the apse.
Clerestory - The uppermost story and the windows in it above the aisles, gallery and triforium.
The semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir or aisles of a church, usually at the east end. A termination of the transept or nave could be given the same name.
St. Denis - Paris - France (1122)
Toronto ...
hall church: one with aisles equal in height to the nave
hammerbeam: type of roof construction in which the braces rest on cantilevered beams supported on brackets.
The western and main body of the church, flanked by the aisles. The nave was traditionally the responsibility of the parishioners in medieval times.
NICHE
A recess in a wall for statue.
Amiens Cathedral
"Plan of Amiens Cathedral. A, Apsidal aisle. B B, Outer aisles of choir. F G, Transepts. H, Central tower. I J, Western turrets. M, Principal or western doorway. N N, Western side doors. P Q, ...
Ambulatory: Passageways surrounding the central part of the choir, which is often a continuation of the side aisles (fig.1,5).
Ambulatory
The aisle around the east end of the choir joining the choir side aisles to make a continuous passage.
Angel roof
A type of late medieval roof in which the ends of the beams were carved to look like angels.
the second story of a church, placed over the side aisles and below the clerestory.
Garbha griha (literally "womb chamber")
a small, cubical sanctuary that is the sacred core of a Hindu temple.
chapels - the recesses on the sides of aisles in cathedrals and abbey churches. Sometimes known as chantries.
Basilica - An important Roman building type consisting of a large central hall often flanked by side aisles. There were many variations.
Bipedales - Roman bricks measuring two Roman feet a side.
Aisle A passageway between the areas of seating or pews, usually going from the back to the front (west to east) of the building. A church or chapel may have side aisles parallel to the main, central one.
Basilica: a rectangular building with an ambulatory or else a central nave and lateral aisles and lit by a clerestory, the row of windows above the inner colonnades ...
NAVE The central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the chancel and flanked by aisles.
The word comes from the Latin 'navis', which means a ship, and alludes to the shape of a church nave.
The main body of the church west of the crossing or chancel. The seating area of the congregation. May be flanked by aisles.
Obelisk.
A tapering pillar of square section at the top and ending pyramidally.
GalleryA long room or passage; an upper storey above the aisles of a church, looking through arches to the nave; a balcony or mezzanine overlooking the main interior space of a building; or an external walkway.
The part of a church between the chief entrance and the choir (quire), demarcated from aisles by piers or columns.
Basilica
In ancient Roman architecture, a large oblong building, generally with double columns and a semicircular apse at one end. In Christian architecture, a church with a nave, apse, and aisles.
Naves are usually tall and open, with lower passages either side, called aisles.
Small stained-glass medallions illustrating episodes from the Bible and from the lives of the saints were reserved for the windows of the chapels and the side aisles. Their closeness to the observer made their details easily distinguishable.
Diazoma - a horizontal aisle in an ancient Greek theater that separates the lower and upper tiers of semi-circular seating and intersects with the vertical aisles ...
The large parallelogram of the Gothic harmonic facade, surmounted by twin towers, reiterates in its triple portals and in its threefold vertical divisions the three aisles of the interior, ...
London drawing on ancient Roman temples for the exterior coupled with a striking steeple evoking medieval references, leading into a light, elegant interior characterized by a flattened barrel vault in the nave and delicate domes in the side aisles ...
It usually contains pews and one or more aisles. neo-Gothic (also called Gothic Revival). Modern imitation of the Gothic style of architecture, which originated in 18th-century England and became popular throughout Europe and North America.
 See also: Aisle, Architecture, Church, Nave, Roman
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