Arch 351 Midterm Key Terms

a lateral division of a Christian church or an ancient Roman basilica parallel to a the main central space of the nave and separated from it by arches

a processional passageway around a shrine or flanking the apse of a Christian church

a vaulted, semicircular or semi-polygonal wall recess or extension of a hall, short end of a Roman basilica or sanctuary end of Christian church

a covered walkeway with a series of arches on columns or piers attached to a wall

a continous semicircular vault that extends in a straight line, a vault is an arched ceiling or roof

in Christian architecture, central-planned structure, octagonal, marked by a ceremonial application of water

a regularly repeated spatial unit of a building or wall defined by vaults, windows, orders, or other prominent vertical features. Cathedrals/Basilicas

an ornamental knob or projection at the intersection of ribs

the elevated range of windows in a wall that rises above adjacent roofs

a covered walkway around a monastery courtyard, or the whole courtyard and walkway complex

a small, thin column especially to support an arcade

an arch or half-arch that transfers the weight of a vault or roof from an upper part of a wall to a lower support

an upper storey open on one side to a building's main interior space or to the exterior. In a church, a gallery runs above an aisle and opens onto the nave

vault formed by the right-angle intersection of two barrel vaults of the same shape

an Islamic open vaulted hall, onto the central courtyard of a mosque, facing the direction of prayer towards qiblah wall w 2 minarets, monuemnts, fountains

a narrow window and is topped with a pointed arch (F and E Gothic)

a wall recess (a niche) in a Muslim religious building indicating the direction of Mecca

a tall slender tower of a mosque, from which the faithfu are called to prayer

the entryway of gathering room leading into an Early Christian church

• in an ancient Roman basilica, the taller central space lit by the clerestory and flanked by aisles
• in a Christian church, the central space of the western arm from the entrance to the crossing and flanked by aisles

a curving triangle surface at the corners of a square or polygonal room that makes a transition from the room shape to a circular dome

a solid masonry support, often rectangular or square

a shallow, flattened, rectangular column or pier attached to a wall and often modeled on a column

the wall in a mosque in which the mihrab is set, oriented to Mecca

a web of ribs supports or seems to support the vault, an arched ceiling roof

a large round medieval window with tracery, frequently found on Gothic church facades

a secondary rib that rises from a wall pier to the ridge rib, between the main diagonal and transverse ribs

a pattern of curvilinear, perforated ornament within the upper part of a medieval window or screen used decoratively on arches and vaults

the transverse arms of a cross-shaped church, crossing the nave at a right angle (High Gothic in France - Notre Dame C, Chartres, France)

in a medieval Christian church, a shallow arcaded passageway or gallery of arches opening onto the nave above the nave arcade and below the clerestory

Semi-circular decorative wall surface over an entrance bound by a lintel and arch

the elaborated west end of a Carolingian or Romanesque church. It has an entrance hall with a room above that opens onto the nave, topped w a broad tower