One Bay of Transept, Winchester Cathedral

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The transept is the area set crosswise to the nave in a cruciform ("cross-shaped") building in Romanesque and Gothic Christian church architecture. The transept separates the nave from the sanctuary, whether apse, choir, chevet, presbytery or chancel. The transepts cross the nave at the crossing, which belongs equally to the main nave axis and to the transept.

Keywords

hall, Cathedral architecture, Romanesque, opening, cruciform, transept, crossing, Norman architecture, corridor

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Miscellaneous Architecture

Source

A. D. F. Hamlin College Histories of Art History of Architecture (New York, NY: Longmans, Green, and Co., 1915)

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