Refectory
The communal dining hall of a monastery. Sometimes called a 'frater'.
Renaissance
The 15th- and 16th-century intellectual and artistic revival of forms from Ancient Greece and Rome.
Refectory - Communal dining hall.
Relieving arch - Arch built up in a wall to relieve thrust on another opening.
Respond - Half-pier bonded into a wall to carry an arch.
refectory: the dining hall of a monastery.
reinforced concrete: concrete strengthened by an inner core of steel wire, making it equally effective in tension and compression.
Refectory
a dining hall in a monastery or other similar institution.
a range or row, especially when one of a series.
Refectory Table:
A narrow long table design originally used in the dining rooms of religious orders.
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refectory: Dining room in a monastery Other parts of monastery: chapter house, cloister, 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.
frater A monastic dining room or refectory. font (Also baptismal font) A bowl-shaped container, usually of stone, which contained holy water for baptism.
Although not yet complete, the centre will eventually include a mosque, accommodation for 500 students, a refectory, a library for 100,000 volumes and recreational facilities.
The term is also loosely applied to various other raised spaces in secular as well as ecclesiastical buildings, in the latter sometimes in the place of pulpit, as in that of the refectory of St. Martin des Champs at Paris.
LavatoriumIn an abbey or monastery, a washing place adjacent to the refectory or dining hall.Lean-toA single sloping roof built against a vertical wall; also applied to the part of the building beneath.
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 ...
Internally, the oldest example is that of the old refectory in Westminster Abbey (fig. 1). Sometimes the design is varied with interlacing arches as in St John's, Devizes (fig. 2), and Beverley Minster (fig. 3).
table, drop-leaf table, drum table, escritoire, folding table, gate-leg or gate-legged table, kitchen table, lapboard, lowboy (U.S. & Canada), nest of tables, occasional table, pedestal desk, Pembroke table, piecrust table, reading desk, refectory ...
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