Collegiate(of church seating): Arranged in confronted rows facing north and south, rather than towards the altar; so called after the chapels of the older university colleges.
Collegiate Gothic buildings of Boston College.
The Reynolds Club, a building on the campus of the University of Chicago
The Henry Birks Building, McGill University ...
Building: Collegiate Church of Notre-Dame
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Another example of Collegiate Gothic is in University of Toronto. Surely it is not a coincidence that the upper section of the tower shows a marked resemblance to Magdalen College in Oxford.
collegiate church A church governed by a chapter of canons that is not a cathedral. Composite An order of Classical architecture that is a combination of Ionic and Corinthian.
window was there retained with two or three transoms, all moulded and with square heads; in the Tudor period cusping was introduced in the upper lights and occasionally in those below, and this custom lingered for a long time in the collegiate ...
Choir
1) The part of a cathedral, monastic church or collegiate church where services are sung. Often spelled Quire in older books.
2) A group of singers.
Choir stalls
The seats in the choir. Often highly decorated and having misericords.
The Gothic style in the form of public buildings is called Collegiate Gothic and it was popular well into the 20th century for churches and for schools, such as Central High school (1925) and Schofield Hall (1912) at UWEC.
Traditionally seen as being defensive, recent research suggests that "a licence to crenelate" may have been granted more for heraldic reasons, as a mark of grace and favour. They can also be found on churches and collegiate buildings.
An architectural style imitating elements of Gothic design, popular in Europe and North America from the late 18th to the beginning of the 20th century, especially in church and collegiate buildings.
Gothic Revival
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The Elements of Style, Stephen Calloway and Elizabeth Cromley (1996)
Construction Dictionary, Greater Phoenix, Arizona chapter #98 of the National Association of Women in Construction (1985)
Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary (2001) ...
But to the remotest corners of the land, to cathedral, abbey church, collegiate and parish church, there was brought the influence of Gloucester by the countless pilgrims to the shrine of Edward the Second in her choir (Bond, op. cit., VII, 134).
Other regional styles of secular architecture also flourished, from the Venetian Gothic of the Doges' Palace (begun 1345?) and the Ca d'Oro (1430?) to the Tudor Gothic of Hampton Court (1515-1536) on the Thames and the Collegiate Gothic, ...
 See also: Architecture, Church, House, Gothic, Frame
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