cloister - surround with a cloister; "cloister the garden"
border, environ, surround, skirt, ring - extend on all sides of simultaneously; encircle; "The forest surrounds my property"
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Cloister vault - A domelike vault having a square or polygonal base from which curved segments rise to a central point. Also called domical vault.
Cloister vault of Fountains Abbey, North Yorkshire, England ...
cloister (Lat. claustrum) - an inner courtyard or central square closed by the four sides of a monastery sometimes situated on the south side of a cathedral. The walkway, or ambulatory, is usually protected by a roof supported by columns.
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Cloister
An enclosed, square courtyard in a monastery with covered walk-ways open to the centre through an arcade on each side.
Column
A vertical support, usually round or polygonal.
Cloister
An open square court surrounded by a covered ambulatory, often archaded. It is generally attached to a church or monastery and is distinguished from a secular courtyard by its function as a lace of seclusion and repose.
Cloister - A court, usually with covered walks or ambulatorie along its sides.
Cob - Unburnt clay mixed with straw.
cloister: four-sided enclosure with covered walk along each side
coffering: sunken square or polygonal panels in ceilings, vaults and in the soffits of arches.
colonnade: a row of columns.
Cloister. Internal courtyard of a monastery or convent with a portico of slender columns supporting a roof and resting on a low wall.
cloister
Part of a monastery; a quadrangle surrounded by covered passages. It connects the domestic parts of the monastery with the church. Usually located on the south side of the church.
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Cloister
in a monastery, a covered passage or ambulatory, usually with one side walled and the other open to a courtyard.
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cloister : In religious institutions, a courtyard with covered walks. A court, usually with covered walks or ambulatories along its sides.
cob - Unburnt clay mixed with straw (torchis).
Cloister
An enclosed walkway, usually forming four sides around a garden, which was the centre of medieval monastic life. From the cloister access could be gained to the most important rooms of the monastery.
Colonnade ...
Cloister of Moissac, c. 1100.
But in the cloister, under the eyes of the Brethern who read there, what profit is there in those ridiculous monsters, in the marvellous and deformed comeliness, that comely deformity?
Cloisters
- an enclosed space, usually on the south side of the nave, connecting the church to the domestic parts of the monastery. Characterised by covered walkways.
Cloister
A religious institutions, a courtyard with covered walks.
Colonnade
A row of columns, usually equidistant, supporting a beam or entablature.
Cloister
four-sided enclosure with a covered walk along each side connecting a church with the principal administrative and domestic buildings
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A covered passage around a quadrangle at the side of the church.
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Coved vault / cloistered arch / clositered vault - A vault comp[osed of four quarter-cylindrical surfaces or coves, meeting in verticl diagonal planes
Cavetto: coved molding. Example: Egyptian cornice ...
Interior view of cloister
Interior view of crossing
Interior view of crypt
Interior view of guest refectory
Interior view of nave
Interior view of promenoir
Interior view of refectory
Interior view of scriptorium ...
Other parts of monastery: cloister, refectory, scriptorium Chemise wall: Formed by a series of interlinked or overlapping semicircular bastions. Chevron: A zig-zag motif.
cloisterCloister derives from the Latin clostrum= lock. It desscribed the part of a monastery to which the public had no access and then became used to describe a rectangular lawn surrounded by a covered walk.
Cloister The rectangular covered area around an open space (garth) of a monastery or cathedral surrounded by covered walkways used for study and meditation. A photograph of the cloister at Lincoln Cathedral ...
It has a separate cloister and a decagonal chapter house with enormous flying buttresses.
The eastern end is square and is filled by an enormous Gothic window with Geometric tracery.
Internally, there is an emphasis upon length and horizontality.
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.
FLYING BUTTRESS, in architecture, the term given to a structural feature employed to transmit the thrust of a vault across an intervening space, such as an aisle, chapel or cloister, to a buttress built outside the latter.
An enclosed quadrangle in a monastery or by a church, surrounded by covered passages; by extension, any space so enclosed. Cloister garth: the area enclosed by a cloister.CloseThe precinct of a cathedral.
Garth : The garden or court within a cloister, usually attached to or near a cathedral.
Hall church : A structure which does not contain a Clerestory or Triforium, thus the Aisles and Nave will be approximately the same height.
Built in 1271 the building has a cruciform plan with a central open court opening onto two-storey cloisters.
A covered walkway, outdoors (as in a cloister) or indoors; especially the passageway around the apse and the choir (quire) of a church.
You can see the ribbed vaulting in the ceiling above this cloister at Royaumont Abbey in Asnières-sur-Oise, France.
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The Gothic style is also related to the many monasteries throughout Britain, closed by Henry VIII, but still with the legacy of learning, education and secluded cloistered existence.
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in an aisle, tower, cloister, or screen), but now restricted to uppermost story of a church where it rises above the aisle roof.
Corbel. - Projecting bracket often carved with grotesque monster heads.
Crocket.
slype A covered walkway from the transept or cloisters of a cathedral to the chapter house. spandrel The walling above and around the curve of an arch. spire An elongated, pointed structure that rises from a tower, turret, or roof.
 See also: Architecture, Church, House, Vault, Cathedral
  
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