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Chevet logo #10101) Apse
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chevet logo #22641east end of a church
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Chevet logo #21002• (n.) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
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Chevet logo #20081style of construction creating an ambulatory and radiating chapels at the eastern arm of a church.
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chevet logo #21003eastern end of a church, especially of a Gothic church designed in the French manner. Beginning about the 12th century, Romanesque builders began to ... [2 related articles]
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chevet logo #20688In architecture, the apsidal east end of a large French church, having an aisle or ambulatory round the apse, sometimes surrounded by a ring of chapels. Westminster Abbey provides...
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Chevet logo #20972Che·vet' noun [ French, head of the bed, dim. from chef head. See Chief .] (Architecture) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
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Chevet logo #21217A chevet is the extreme end of the chancel or choir in a church; the term being properly used to describe the round or polygonal part.
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Chevet logo #22199Apse 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.
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chevet logo #21199an apse, as of a Gothic cathedral.
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