crossing - traveling across
travel, traveling, travelling - the act of going from one place to another; "he enjoyed selling but he hated the travel"
fording, ford - the act of crossing a stream or river by wading or in a car or on a horse ...
Crossing square
The area in a church that is formed by the intersection (crossing) of a nave and transept of equal width.
Crossing - The bay where the nave, choir and transepts meet.
Crypt - The vaulted passage and chapels beneath the main floor.
Flamboyant - Flame like, applied to aspects of the Late Gothic Style, particularly tracery.
Crossing
The space at the intersection of the nave, chancel, and transepts of a church; often surmounted by a crossing tower or dome.
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Crossing
The central space in a church where the nave, chancel, and transepts meet.
Crossing arch
The arches leading from the nave, choir, and transepts into the central crossing space.
crossing - intersection of the nave, transepts & chancel.
crypt - area below the cathedral traditionally reserved for burial chambers.
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Crossing
The area where the choir, nave, and transepts meet.
Crypt
A vaulted chamber made to house graves and relics, generally located beneath the chancel. Many crypts were very large, to allow numbers of pilgrims access.
Crossing: Space where the transept intersects with the nave along the main axis of the church (fig.1).
Crossing pier - In the interior of a building, a support placed at one of the corners of the crossing.
Crossing tower - The tower which sometimes occurs above the space at the intersection of the nave, chancel, and transept of a church.
CROSSING The space in a cruciform church formed by the intersection of the nave and the transept.
CROSSING SQUARE The area in a cruciform church that is formed by the intersection (crossing) of a nave and transept of equal width.
crossing pier: In the interior of a building, a support that is placed at one of the corners of the crossing.
See also crossing, pier.
Crossing
the area in a Christian church where the transepts intersect the nave.
Cross section ...
crossing tower
The tower which sometimes occurs above the space at the intersection of the nave, chancel, and transept of a church. See also crossing,crossing pier
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Crossing : The area of intersection in a Cruciform church, formed by joining the Nave, Transept & Chancel.
Groined vault : A rib-less vault formed by the meeting of a pair of equal barrel vaults at right angle to each other.
Crossing
- the area where the nave and choir intercept with the transepts. See Church Design.
Crossing
In a church, the area where the transept and the nave intersect usually emphasized by a dome or tower.
Dome
A vaulted roof of circular or polygonal shape.
Crossing
Gallery with half barrel vaults thickened by ribs. Thrust of nave vault is transmitted through ribs to external wall buttresses.
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The crossing is the part of the nave that also belongs to the transepts that intersect its space.
Interior view of crossing
Interior view of nave
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Building: Abbey Church of Saint-Germain
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In some churches there is no choir, while in others, the choir is quite large and surrounded by an ambulatory; The part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
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crossing The point at which the transepts cross the nave of a church. cruciform Cross-shaped. crypt A vaulted chamber made to house graves and relics, generally located beneath the chancel.
Reference has already been made to two of the French spires, at Chartres and St Denis; there is nothing like the diversity of design in France, however, when compared with those in England, and there are but few on the crossing of nave and transept; ...
The oldest example of a rectangular canal pattern is at Passargadae, in Iran, and the oldest example of a square garden with symmetrical crossing canals is at the Alhambra.
Chancel: dividing chancel from nave or crossing in a church. Crossing: spanning piers at a crossing in a church. Depressed or three-centred: with a rounded top, but curving inward more at the sides.
Choir - the part of a cruciform church east of the crossing.
Clasping - encasing the angle.
Cloister - four-sided enclosure with a covered walk along each side connecting a church with the principal administrative and domestic buildings.
Isidoro at Leon both possess domes or lanterns over the crossing, remarkable in point of structural ingenuity and beauty of design both internally and externally.
Masugata mon: The barbican gatehouse used to defend the main access route of a Japanese castle, positioned at either the crossings of the inner, middle, or outer moats, or at the main entrance to the castle.
Herringbone-strut Two small pieces of timber crossing each other to separate joists.
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Transcept- The perpindicular, North-South crossing of the nave to form the horizontal unit of a cross.
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Flying Buttresses- Open slender structures that buttres and support the nave and ambulatory of a church ...
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Lattice A grille created by criss-crossing or decoratively interlacing strips of material.
Leaded Window A window decorated by artistic inserts of lead.
Lintel A horizontal crosspiece over an opening.
nave: main arm of a church, west of crossing and flanked by aisles, extending from the choir to the west and used by the congregation.
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Lattice - Laths or lines crossing to form a network.
Lias - Greyish rock which splits easily into slabs.
Light - Glazing; component part of window, divided by mullions and transoms.
The main body of the church west of the crossing or chancel. The seating area of the congregation. May be flanked by aisles.
Obelisk.
A tapering pillar of square section at the top and ending pyramidally.
Cavity tray - A damp-proof crossing the cavity of a wall at an abutment, rising from the roof side upwards at least 150mm before passing through the wall.
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In 1357 a new phase in Ottoman expansion was achieved by crossing the Dardanelles into Europe and fighting the divided Balkan Christians.
TRANSEPT The transverse arm of a cruciform church. The nave and the transepts intersect at the crossing.
TRIGLYPH A rectangular block between metopes in a Doric frieze usually ornamented by vertical grooves.
VERGEBOARD See bargeboard.
This image is of the multi-level, crystal, entrance pavilion. This is the crossing in an L shaped plan. From here the public galleries radiate in a number of directions.
Transept. Transverse nave in a cruciform church, crossing the main nave at the level of the presbytery.
Trefoil. Three-lobed opening or arch.
transept In a church, a projecting space that is perpendicular to the nave; the nave and transepts intersect at the crossing to produce a cruciform plan.
Hammer Beam: A short horizontal beam, usually made of wood, extending from the top of a masonry wall outward towards the center of an enclosed space, but not completely crossing it.
Keystone : The apex of the vault.
lovely Angel Choir (begun 1256) of Lincoln Cathedral, and was responsible as well for that unique masterpiece of medieval architecture, the astounding octagon (begun 1322) of Ely Cathedral, with its wooden lantern and tower soaring over the crossing.
 See also: Architecture, Church, Nave, Vault, House
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