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.
Radiating chapels
chapels placed around the ambulatory (and sometimes the transepts) of a medieval church.
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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.
The eastern end of the building has an apse surrounded by a cluster of lower radiating chapels called a chevet.
There is an emphasis on verticality. The vault is supported by flying buttresses.
In the beginning of the 13th century in France, the apses became radiating chapels outside the choir aisle, henceforth known as the chevet.
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.
Exterior of Choir of St. Denis: the lower story with radiating chapels from 1140-1144; flying buttresses and upper story from the mid-13th century/
"Tree of Jesse Window." ambulatory of St. Denis, 1140-1144.
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 - The eastern end of a Gothic church, including choir (quire), ambulatory, and radiating chapels.
Chevron - A decorative V-shaped line.; Zig-zag moulding (twelfth century).
Radburn systemVehicle and pedestrian segregation in residential developments, based on that used at Radburn, New Jersey, USA, by Wright and Stein, 1928-30.Radiating chapelsChapels projecting radially from an ambulatory or apse, ...
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 ...
In the ambulatory of Saint-Denis, the slim columns supporting the vaults and the elimination of the dividing walls separating the radiating chapels result in a new sense of flowing space presaging the expanded spaciousness of the later interiors.
 See also: Chapel, Church, Ambulatory, Chevet, Cathedral
  
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