Transept
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A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any
Description
The transept of a church separates the nave from the
Occasionally, the
When churches have only one transept, as at Pershore Abbey, there is generally a historical disaster, fire, war or funding problem, to explain the anomaly. At Beauvais only the chevet and transepts stand; the nave of the cathedral was never completed after a collapse of the daring high vaulting in 1284. At St. Vitus Cathedral, Prague, only the choir and part of a southern transept were completed until a renewed building campaign in the 19th century.
Other senses of the word
The word "transept" is occasionally extended to mean any subsidiary corridor crossing a larger main corridor, such as the cross-halls or "transepts" of The Crystal Palace, London, of glass and iron that was built for the Great Exhibition of 1851.
In a
See also
- Aisle
- Cathedral architecture
- Cathedral diagram
- Glossary of the Catholic Church
- Transom (architectural)
References
- ^ a b c "Transept". ProbertEncyclopaedia.com. Archived from the original on October 25, 2012.
External links
Transepts.
- Chisholm, Hugh, ed. (1911). . Encyclopædia Britannica. Vol. 27 (11th ed.). Cambridge University Press. p. 172.