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.
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.
8: [R]ecalling the monstrous sculptures of the cloisters, we are impressed by the fact that although Bernard condemns these works as meaningless and wasteful, ...
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, ...
The sahn (open courtyard) for congregational worship with the enclosing diwans (cloisters) and the sanctuary at the Western end offered a different architectural vocabulary.
1. A grassy quadrangle surrounded by cloisters.
2. Archaic A yard, garden, or paddock.
[Middle English, enclosed yard, from Old Norse gardhr; see gher-1 in Indo-European roots.] ...
Built in 1271 the building has a cruciform plan with a central open court opening onto two-storey cloisters.
Shown here is the floor plan for the Barcelona Cathedral and Cloisters.
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SlypeIn a greater medieval church, a covered way or passage leading east from the cloisters between transept and chapter house.SneckedOf masonry, with courses broken by smaller stones (snecks).
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: Cloister, Church, Architecture, Cathedra, Cathedral
  
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