ambulatory - a covered walkway (as in a cloister); "it has an ambulatory and seven chapels"
paseo, walkway, walk - a path set aside for walking; "after the blizzard he shoveled the front walk"
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Ambulatory
AM bya la TORE ee
1 - A passageway around the apse of a church
2- A covered walk of a cloister ...
Ambulatory: Passageways surrounding the central part of the choir, which is often a continuation of the side aisles (fig.1,5).
Ambulatory - The extension of the aisles around the apse.
Apse - The eastern complex of the church, with all the parts within the curved section, including the ambulatory, chapels and roundpoint, called a chevet.
Ambulatory - Aisle round an apse.
Apse - Rounded and usually of a chancel or chapel.
Arcade - Row of arches, free-standing and supported on piers or columns; a blind arcade is a "dummy".
Ambulatory
A covered walkway, outdoors (as in a cloister) or indoors; especially the passageway around the apse and the choir (quire) of a church.
ambulatory - circular aisle which wraps around the apse.
apse - (Lat. apsis, an arch) The semicircular or polygonal termination to the choir or aisles of a church. See cathedral and diagram.
Ambulatory : A continuous isle which wraps a circular structure or an apse at its base. Designed for use in Processions.
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.
ambulatory: the aisle running round the eastern end of a church.
anta: (pl. -ae) strengthening of a wall termination, resembling a pilaster, generally at the ends of the projecting walls of a portico.
Ambulatory
A continuous vaulted passageway or aisle that leads around a circular building, or around the apse of a church behind the main altar.
AMBULATORY An aisle around the apse at the east end of a church. None of the listed building churches in Ashfield are big enough to contain an ambulatory, but the term is common in church architecture and so is here for completeness.
ambulatory: A semicircular or polygonal aisle which leads around the east end of the choir; often separating the choir from apses or chapels.
See also aisle, apse, choir, east end, hemicycle ...
Ambulatory
A covered passage behind the altar, linking it with chapels at the east end of the church.
Ambulatory.
(Literally -walkway) An aisle round the sanctuary, sometimes surrounding an apse and therefore semi circular or Polygonal in plan.
Amorin.
Ambulatory - A semicircular or polygonal aisle enclosing an apse or a straight-ended sanctuary; originally used for processional purposes.
Amphiprostyle - Term applied to a temple with porticos at each end, but without columns along the sides.
Ambulatory
a vaulted passageway, usually surrounding the apse or choir of a church.
Amphitheater ...
ambulatory : A continuous aisle in a circular building, as in a church.
ambulatory
A semicircular or polygonal aisle. Usually an ambulatory leads around the east end of the choir; separating the choir from apses or chapels. A covered passage behind the altar, linking it with chapels at the east end of the church.
Ambulatory
- a covered way for walking.
A roofed passageway, enclosing the apse, and linking the aisles which flank the nave. See Church Design ...
Ambulatory
A continuous aisle in a building, especially around the apse in a church.
Apse
A semicircular area at the end of a church; in most churches it contains the altar.
Ambulatory with radiating chapel.
Radiating chapel.
Pointed arches appear in the nave arcade and the nave is roofed with a pointed barrel vault. The pointed arches and vault emphasize the verticality of the building.
Ambulatory- Aisleway surrounding choir on East end of Cathedral
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Cruciform- In the shape of a Christian crucifix ...
The ambulatory at the Abbey of Saint-Denis.
[edit] Abbot Suger
Abbot Suger, friend and confidante of the French Kings, Louis VI and Louis VII, decided in about 1137, to rebuild the great Church of Saint-Denis, ...
Interior view ambulatory
Interior view crossing
Bourges (France)
Building: Cathedral of Saint Etienne
Date: 13th century ...
The semicircular ambulatory of Morienval (c. 1122), with its vaulting supported on ribs curved in plan, and the church of St-Etienne at Beauvais (c. 1130), ...
ambulatory A covered passage around and behind the altar, linking it with chapels at the east end of the church. apse A rounded alcove or extension, usually at the east end of a church. arcade A line of arches.
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.
ARCADE, in architecture, a range of arches, supported either by columns or piers; isolated in the case of those separating the nave of a church from the aisles, or forming the front of a covered ambulatory, as in the cloisters in Italy and Sicily, ...
Of the earlier structure only the ambulatory and the west facade were preserved.
portico (12) -- a covered ambulatory consisting of a roof supported by columns placed at regular intervals, usually attached as a porch to a building (Oxford Dict.) ...
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 ...
The cathedrals also retained and expanded the loveliest creation of French Romanesque architecture, the chevet"the complex of forms at the east end of the church that includes the semicircular aisle known as the ambulatory, ...
The earliest complete Gothic structure is the ambulatory of the abbey of Saint-Denis in France. Built between 1140 and 1144, the church became a model for most of the late 12th-century French cathedrals, including those at Chartres and Senlis.
Radburn systemVehicle and pedestrian segregation in residential developments, based on that used at Radburn, New Jersey, USA, by Wright and Stein, 1928-30.Radiating chapelsChapels projecting radially from an ambulatory or apse, ...
There is no courtyard but there is an L-shaped ambulatory on the north-west and south-west sides. In addition there is a raised gallery at first floor level opening on to a wooden balcony which runs around three sides of the sanctuary.
 See also: Church, Chapel, Architecture, Aisle, Nave
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