Chapel
"A chapel is a holy place or area of worship for Christians, which may be attached to an institution such as a large church, a college, a hospital, a palace, a prison or a cemetery, ...
Chapel of Ease
A church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church.
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Chapel of Saint Peter
Sacred Buildings: Modernist Chapel of St. Peter in Campos de Jordão, SP, Brazil
Pritzker Prize-winning architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha designed the innovative chapel of Saint Peter for an irregular landscape.
Aix-la Chapelle
Excerpt from Heinrich Fichtenau's Carolingian Empire, pp. 54-55: When the palace chapel at Aix-la-Chapelle was built, it was planned as a double church.
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.
chapels - the recesses on the sides of aisles in cathedrals and abbey churches. Sometimes known as chantries.
chapel
A chapel can either be an alcove with an altar in a large church, or a separate building that is smaller than a full-sized church.
Chapel
1) A separate space within a church containing its own altar.
2) Place of worship, either a separate building or incorporated within another structure such as a house or castle, below the rank of a parish church.
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Chapel. The name derives from the oratory in Charlemagne's palace at Aquisgrana in Germany, where the cape of Saint Martin of Tours was housed. In the nave of a church it represents a niche containing an altar dedicated to a saint.
Chapel
Either a small church, or an area or compartment within a larger church that contains an altar. Chapels have the same function as church buildings and are equipped the same way, but they are usually dedicated to special use.
Lady chapel - A chapel dedicated to the Virgin, usually built east of the chancel and forming a projection from the main building.
Lady Chapel - Hereford Cathedral
Lancet window - A slender pointed-arched window, much used in the early c 13.
Lady Chapel : If you are considering taking on some part time work in one of the Notre Dames, you had better memorize this term. The Lady Chapel will be found in all the Notre Dames, as well as many of the Great Gothic Cathedrals.
CHANTRY CHAPEL
Derived from the French chanceries meaning ‘to sing’, a priest would be employed to sing masses for the well being of the founder in his life time, and for his soul after death.
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Chapel
- most popularly applies to a private place of worship, but can be part of a church, where often, worship of a particular saint is implied.
Chapel at Notre Dame du Haut, by Le Corbusier
Subcategories
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Chapel (of a Priest)
Cheek-pieces
in open string stairs, a rectangular or shaped block covering the ends of the steps between treads and risers.
Chapel of St. John at the Tower of London - a good example of early Romanesque style.
chapels placed around the ambulatory (and sometimes the transepts) of a medieval church.
Radiocarbon dating
a method of dating prehistoric objects based on the rate of degeneration of radioactive carbon in organic materials.
A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary (Our Lady).Lair(Scots): A burial space reserved in a graveyard.Laird’s loft(Scots): A gallery in a church reserved for an individual or special group, when it is sometimes called a trades loft.
The chapel was built in 1820 for the private use of the MacNab family who owned Dundurn Castle.
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A small chapel or porch at the western end of a medieval English church.
[Middle English galile, from Old North French galilee, from Medieval Latin galilaea, from Latin Galilaea, Galilee.]
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Enclosure or chapel within which the fereter shrine, or tomb (as in Henry VII.'s chapel), was placed....
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Usually an ambulatory leads around the east end of the choir; separating the choir from apses or chapels; Aisle round an apse. Applied or engaged column: A column which is attached to a wall so that only half of the form projects from the wall.
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.
His Pazzi Chapel (begun c. 1441), also in Florence, is a clear statement of new principles of proportion and design. A new type of urban building evolved at this time-the palazzo, or city residence of a prominent family.
The early Renaissance architects in France in some cases, and notably in the apsidal chapels of St Pierre at Caen (1520), seemed to feel that the stained glass was too much cut up by the tracery and mullions, and omitted them altogether, ...
Before the architectural revolution there were signs that sense of proportion and composition was decaying, as for example in the Lady Chapel of Ely (1321), which has almost no architectonic qualities to commend it, but, ...
Cloisters - Roofed passage between a chapel of a monastery and the monks quarters
Closet - A small private room.
Club - An association of persons for social, political athletic or other ends.
Cluster - A group or crowd.
Apse - rounded and usually of a chancel or chapel.
Arbalestina - cruciform loophole, used by crossbowmen.
Arcade - row of arches, free-standing and supported on piers or columns; a blind arcade is a "dummy".
As can still be appreciated in the Sainte-Chapelle and in the cathedrals of Chartres and Bourges, Gothic interiors with their full complement of stained glass were as dark as those of Romanesque churches.
In the beginning of the 13th century in France, the apses were built as radiating chapels outside the choir aisle, henceforth known as the chevet (French, "headpiece"), when the resulting structure was too complicated to be merely an "apse".
In California, an outlying mission station which had a chapel but no resident missionary priest. Priests from the nearest mission periodically visited to say Mass, conduct marriages, hear Confession, officiate at funerals, etc.
The tomb itself was usually composed of two distinct parts: the chapel and crypt. The highly decorated walls of the funerary chapel accommodated a false door.
Radiating (Apsidal) chapels: Series of chapels arranged around an ambulatory in the apse of a cathedral (fig.1).
Reliquary: A container, often richly ornamented, holding the remains of a saint which can be displayed to the faithful.
Oratory - Private in-house chapel; small cell attached to a larger chapel.
Order - One of a series of concentric mouldings.
Oriel - Projecting window in wall; originally a form of porch, usually of wood; side-turret.
Rayonnant Gothic (1240-1350) takes its name from the series of chapels that branch out from the cathedral apse, as in Sainte Chapelle, Paris (1226-30). Late Gothic or the Flamboyant style (1350-1520) is exemplified in St Gervais, Paris.
Apse: circular or polygonal end of a tower or chapel
Arcading: rows of arches supported on columns, free-standing or attached to a wall (blind arcade)
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absidiole: a small chapel projecting from the apse of a church or cathedral.
abutment: solid stonework or brickwork built against an arch or vault and counteracting its lateral thrust.
"Rather than build more airy and tasteful, but perishable houses, let us imitate the humble English country churches and chapels of the middle age:--snug, low, Gothic structures, with massive walls of rough, unhewn stone, ...
circular or polygonal end of tower or chapel
Arcade
row of arches, free-standing and supported on piers or columns, known as a blind or dummy arcade when it is attached to a wall ...
Galilee
A porch at the western end of the church used as a chapel for women or penitents. Sometimes the word refers to the entire western end of the nave.
Greek-cross Plan
A style of church with four equal arms.
ORATORY: A small private chapel usually in a house
PALACE: The official residence of a sovereign.
PALISADE: A wooden defensive fence.
aumbry A recess to hold reliquaries or sacred vessels, often found in castle chapels.
baldachin An ornamented canopy, supported by columns or suspended from a roof or projected from a wall, usually over an altar, or throne.
APSE
Vaulted semicircular or polygonal end of a chancel or chapel.
ARCADE
Series of arches supported by piers or columns. Blind arcade or arcading: the same applied to the wall surface.
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 chapels that radiate ...
Flying buttress, or arc-boutant - a flying buttress is usually on a religious building, used to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space (which might be an aisle, chapel or cloister), to a buttress outside the building.
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.
Westwork
In German Romanesque, a monumental entrance to a church consisting of towers, with a chapel above.
Ziggurat
In ancient Assyria and Babylonia, a tower in the shape of a stepped pyramid. It formed the base of a temple.
Aumbry - A recess to hold sacred vessels, often found in castle chapels.
Awning Window - A window hinged along the top edge.
So the use of stone in their constructions was gradually introduced, starting with chapel, or the gate which was a chief source of concern.
Bell Gable
A bell gable is a kind of turret placed on the apex of a gable at the west end of small churches and chapels. ...
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The eastern end of a Gothic church, including choir (quire), ambulatory, and radiating chapels.
ambulatory: A semicircular or polygonal aisle which leads around the east end of the choir; often separating the choir from apses or chapels.
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In its earliest form the mosque lacked a minaret and resembled a chapel from the exterior. Inside, there were two courtyards, a kitchen and storage rooms as well as a prayer hall.
Chapelle, where the clerestory was lengthened to such an extreme to form the most of the wall.
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