transept

Examples of transept in the following topics:

• Norman Stained Glass

  • Perhaps the most famous 12th-century window at Chartres is the so-called Notre-Dame de la Belle-Verrière, found in the first bay of the choir after the south transept.
  • The nave and transept clerestory windows mainly depict saints and Old Testament prophets.
  • The also cathedral has three large rose windows: the western rose, the north transept rose, and the south transept rose.
  • The Cathedral at Chartres contains there rose windows from the 13th century, including this south transept rose window.

• Romanesque Architecture: The Church of Saint-Lazare

  • The plan of the cathedral has a narthex, or antechamber, of two bays topped by two towers, followed by a seven-bay nave flanked by side aisles and a transept with the tower surmounting cross.
  • Each transept projects to the width of two nave bays and the west entrance has a narthex which screens the main portal.
  • Lazare has a ground plan in the form of a Latin cross, with an aisled nave, a plain transept, and a three-stage choir with a semicircular end.

• Architecture of the Early Christian Church

  • Between the nave and the apse, they added a transept, which ran perpendicular to the nave.
  • Peter's followed the plan of the Roman basilica and added a transept (labeled "Bema" in this diagram) to give the church a cruciform shape.

• Cistercian Architecture

  • Various buildings, including the chapter-house to the east and the dormitories above, were grouped around a cloister and were sometimes linked to the transept of the church itself by a night stair.
  • Cistercian churches were most often built on a cruciform layout, with a short presbytery to meet the liturgical needs of the brethren, small chapels in the transepts for private prayer, and an aisle-edged nave that was divided roughly in the middle by a screen to separate the monks from the lay brothers.

• Cluny

  • Only the southern transept and its bell-tower still exist.

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• Gothic Architecture: The Abbey Church of Saint Denis

  • The upper facades of the two much-enlarged transepts were filled with two spectacular rose windows.

• Gothic Cathedrals

  • This nave is flanked on either side by aisles, a transverse arm called the transept, and, beyond it, an extension referred to as the choir.

• Characteristics of Romanesque Architecture

  • Piers that occur at the intersection of two large arches, such as those under the crossing of the nave and transept, are commonly cruciform in shape, each arch having its own supporting rectangular pier at right angles to the other.

• Mosaics in the Early Byzantine Empire

  • The other four apostles appear in the barrel vaults of the transepts.