Chapter House - a special room or house where the governing body of a monastery or cathedral met. In Britain the chapter house is usually polygonal in shape with a slender central column supporting the roof.
Chapter House - administrative center of a cathedral, traditionally organized for overseeing construction.
choir - the area of the main altar where services are sung, located between the crossing and the apse.
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Chapter house
The room in a monastery or cathedral where the entire community gathered for a daily assembly.
chapter house: room for daily monastic business, in which the chapter (capitulum) of monastic rules is read.
cheek-walls: low walls protecting the flanks of a flight of steps.
Chapter house. Large room in a cathedral or monastery where the chapter (governing body) met to discuss and decide on matters concerning the religious community.
Chasuble. Outer vestment worn by officiating priest at mass.
Chapter house
a meeting place for the discussion of business in a cathedral or monastery.
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chapter house: A meeting place for the chapter or governing body of a monastery or a cathedral. Other parts of monastery: cloister, refectory, scriptorium.
chevron: A zig-zag motif.
Compare with lozenge. See also nailhead.
Chapter house : The administrative center or Bishop's office, attached to a cathedral, traditionally organized for the overseeing of a cathedral's construction and maintenance.
Windows in the Chapter House at York Minster show the equilateral arch with typical circular motifs in the tracery.
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chapter house A building attached to a cathedral where the monks or chapter meet to govern the cathedral. chevet East end of a church as seen from the outside, especially one with an apse and radiating chapels.
In its polygonal chapter houses England developed a brilliant conception all its own, and almost the same might be said of the parish church, while in the designing of tombs, chantries, reredoses, choir-screens, and chancel-fittings of wood, ...
Chapter House The building where the canons and Dean met each day to hear a chapter of St Benedict's Rule read out and to conduct the business of the abbey
Chevet East end of a church with an apse surrounded by other smaller ones ...
Chapter houseThe place of assembly for the members of a monastery or cathedral, usually located off the east side of the cloister.Check(Scots): A rectangular section cut out of a masonry edge to receive a shutter, door, window etc.
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Photo, Valentine 6 Sons. FIG. 14. - Intersecting Ribbed Vaulting. Late example. Chapter House, Bristol Cathedral.
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 See also: House, Church, Cathedra, Cathedral, Aisle
  
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