How To Use Narthex In A Sentence
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Churches on this pattern have barrel vaults and particularly fine nave porches with narthex in front.
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When the Mass was over Gnat was capering around the narthex, showing off her happy frilly purple coat.
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Churches on this pattern have barrel vaults and particularly fine nave porches with narthex in front.
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Christian glanced into the nave from the narthex, checking to make sure Elizabeth was all right.
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The structure continues a Spanish tradition in that, although it is by location a narthex placed at the west end of the church of San Isidoro, it has the character of a crypt and burial chamber.
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In the narthex, daylight enters from a mysterious source overhead; the main sanctuary is seen only in glimpses.
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Within, a lacquered bronze glazed screen divides nave from the narthex.
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She takes in narthex and ground plan, nave, altar, apse, chapels, the exterior, crypt and tower, relating each to architectural and religious history.
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Within the doorway is a spacious narthex, of which the triforium is filled with antiquities connected with the monastery which adjoined the church.
The South of France—East Half
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Like most Roman churches, the building is of brick and is fronted by a porch and open narthex.
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The narthex door by which they had entered was set in an archway decorated with reliefs of various animals, sheep, wolves, a sportive deer.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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They were seated at the midpoint of the nave, with us facing them backward, that is, toward the narthex rather than the apse of the cathedral.
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How often is the church narthex so small that it can't accommodate even a small crowd of people - who in northern climes are trying to remove their boots?
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Last spring the hospitality committee put a little coffee stand in the narthex.
Christianity Today
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The baptism begins at the narthex of the church, where the godparents speak for the child, renouncing Satan, blowing three times in the air, and spitting three times on the floor.
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In our conversations in the narthex, we learn to smile and nod and thank the preacher for the sermon even if we didn't understand a thing.
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As soon they reached the narthex, a small antechamber built off of the western gate's wall, Rachel twisted the handle to the room, and the door groaned open.
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The narthex door by which they had entered was set in an archway decorated with reliefs of various animals, sheep, wolves, a sportive deer.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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Where colours were hard to make or obtain, uncoloured tesserae were overpainted: red glass was particularly difficult and often, as in the narthex panel in Hagia Sophia, red paint was applied.
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The narthex door by which they had entered was set in an archway decorated with reliefs of various animals, sheep, wolves, a sportive deer.
SOMEWHERE EAST OF LIFE
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The church is high and light so that the vista from narthex to eastern apse is clear and uninterrupted.
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1117, [Greek: narthêx] is "ferula" or "fennel-giant," the pith of which makes excellent fuel.
Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound and the Seven Against Thebes
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They were seated at the midpoint of the nave, with us facing them backward, that is, toward the narthex rather than the apse of the cathedral.
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Some aspects of the design are a little strange -- the rather weak articulation of the principal elevation behind the low screen of the narthex; the wealth of freestanding or nearly-freestanding towers, the stumpy nave swallowed up by the great crossing; but many of these are simply traceable to the titanic scale of the project, a feature common to every one of the designs submitted.
W. Halsey Wood's Jerusalem the Golden
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This man lived alone in the old narthex.
The Crossing-Place
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Above each narthex is a gynaeceum, which was for the use of women only.
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Where colours were hard to make or obtain, uncoloured tesserae were overpainted: red glass was particularly difficult and often, as in the narthex panel in Hagia Sophia, red paint was applied.
