transept

How To Use transept In A Sentence

• By the Requiem Aeternam the choir was established in the body of the church, in the transept.
• As they entered the north-east transept from the cloister, the tumult of the knights' party caused the monks in the choir to stop singing vespers.
• The abbey church consisted of a choir of three bays, with side aisles and an aisleless presbytery; a nave of nine bays, with aisles and north and south transepts with eastern aisles; two western towers and one large central tower. Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys
• Then there were two things which he noticed before any other -- the bow of that vast Norman arch which spanned the opening into the south transept, with its lofty and over-delicate roll and cavetto mouldings; and behind it the head of the The Nebuly Coat
• Although now installed in the north transept of the later church, the plaque exactly fits a cavity in the tympanum over the original door giving access from the Panteon to the main sanctuary.
• Apses with encircling ambulatories were almost invariable, and there was frequently the western transept, as at Bury and Ely. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
• The chancel is short, there are no quire aisles, and the transept apses were rounded externally. The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church
• Although now installed in the north transept of the later church, the plaque exactly fits a cavity in the tympanum over the original door giving access from the Panteon to the main sanctuary.
• Rebuilding after a fire began in the 1220s at the east end; the main transepts and the first bay of the nave were up by 1260.
• This refurbishment includes replacement, pointing and refurbishment of stonework on the four faces and the north and south transepts.