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25 Cards in this Set
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Aedicule |
A decorative architectural frame, usually found around a niche, door, or window |
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Ambulatory |
A passageway around the apse or altar of a church |
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Annular Vault |
A vault rising from two walls that are circular in plan (above the ambulatory) |
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Apse |
A recess, usually semicircular, in the wall of a building, commonly found at the east end of a church |
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Atrium |
An unroofed interior courtyard or room in a Roman house, or early Christian basilica, sometimes surrounded by columns |
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Baldachin |
A canopy placed over an honorific or sacred space such as a throne or church altar |
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Basilica |
In Christian architecture, a church somewhat resembling the Roman basilica, usually entered from one end and with an apse at the other |
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Clerestory |
The fenestrated part of a building that rises above the roofs of the other parts. In Roman basilicas and medieval churches, the windows that form the nave’s uppermost level below the timber ceiling or the vaults |
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Crossing |
The intersection of nave and transept in a cruciform church |
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Crypt |
A subterranean chamber or vault, especially one beneath the main floor of a church, used for a burial place, a location for secret meetings, etc.
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Gallery |
A second story over the side aisles of a church below the clerestory
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Greek Cross |
A floor plan with four arms of equal length and at right angles |
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Latin Cross |
The design of a Christian basilica with a long arm and three shorter arms |
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Mausoleum |
A building containing crypts or vaults for entombment, an above ground structure for burial
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Narthex |
A vestibule leading to the nave of a church |
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Nave |
The linear, central two or three story high space lit by clerestory windows |
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Pier |
A square pillar
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Pendentive |
A construction shaped like a triangle that transitions the space between flat walls and the base of a round dome |
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Roundel |
Round center of a stain glass window, a circular painting or relief sculpture |
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Semidomes
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Half a dome, especially as formed by a vertical section, as over a semicircular apse
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Side aisle |
Passages or open corridor of a basilica, church, hall or other building that parallels the main space, usually on both sides, and is delineated by a row, or arcade, of columns or piers |
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Spandrel
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The roughly triangular space enclosed by the curves of adjacent arches and a horizontal member connecting their vertexes |
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Squinch
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A straight or arched structure across an interior angle of a square tower to carry a superstructure such as a dome |
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Spolia |
War plunder, like stone from temples, used to construct new buildings, most early Christian buildings were made of this
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Transept
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The part of a church with an axis that crosses the nave at a right angle |
