Chevet
The eastern end of a Gothic church, including choir (quire), ambulatory, and radiating chapels.
Chevet: Apse built as radiating chapels outside of the choir aisle, and the resulting, more complicated structure became known as the chevet at the beginning of the 13th century.
Chevet - style of construction creating an ambulatory and radiating chapels at the eastern arm of a church.
Choir (quire) - where services are sung, or more generally, the eastern arm of a church.
Chevet
A French term used to describe the developed east end of a church, usually a French Gothic cathedral, with its apse, ambulatory, and radiating chapels. Image courtesy of Gretchen Ranger ...
chevet: the apsidal east end of a church with chapels radiating from it.
chevron: zigzag ornament in the form of an inverted ‘V’.
chief: upper third of a shield.
Chevet
French term for the east end of a Gothic church, comprising the choir, ambulatory, and radiating chapels.
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Chevet : The extreme east of a cathedral when Chapels encircle an Apse and an Ambulatory.
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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"), ...
With the chevet as fully developed as it now appears in St-Denis, there remains only the gradual perfection and refinement of the structural system and the giving it that quality of distinctive beauty in every aspect that was to be the very flowering ...
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There are, invariably, two naves, which intersect in a cross, and whose upper portion, rounded into an apse, forms the choir; there are always the side aisles, for interior processions, for chapels, ...
Interior view of chevet
Interior view of choir
Interior view of cloister, southwest corner
Interior view of crossing
Interior view of nave
interior view of south choir tribune ...
chevet East end of a church as seen from the outside, especially one with an apse and radiating chapels. chevron A zigzag pattern characteristic of Romanesque decoration that is often carved around pillars, arches and doorways.
Chevet East end of a church with an apse surrounded by other smaller ones
Chevron A zigzag form of ornamentation used in the Norman period
Chevron Angled shape on a shield used in heraldry (More...) ...
In the beginning of the 13th century in France, the apses became radiating chapels outside the choir aisle, henceforth known as the chevet.
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, ...
XXXIV: Moreover, we caused to be painted, by the exquisite hands of many masters from different regions, a splendid variety of new windows, both below and above; from the first one which begins [the series] with the Tree of Jesse in the chevet of the ...
Radiating chapels - Chapels projecting radially from an ambulatory or apse. See also chevet.
Raggle - A groove cut in masonry, e.g. to receive the edge of a roof.
Ragstones - See rubble masonry.
Apse - The eastern complex of the church, with all the parts within the curved section, including the ambulatory, chapels and roundpoint, called a chevet.
Arches - A carved structural member that spans an opening.
Cherry-caulking or cherry-cocking(Scots): Decorative masonry technique using lines of tiny stones (pins or pinning) in the mortar joints.Chevet(lit. head): French term for a chancel with a surrounding aisle (called an ...
crypt : A vaulted space under part of a building, wholly or partly underground; in Medieval churches, normally the portion under an apse or a chevet.
window openings, the aisles, nave, transept, choir [that part of a church between the sanctuary and the nave reserved for singers and clergy - atypical in American churches because the choir is often is seated in a raised choir loft], and chevet bays ...
 See also: Church, Cathedra, Chapel, Cathedral, Choir
  
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