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DEAMBULATORY [1 record]

Record 1 2018-04-11

English

Subject field(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

Aisle at the east end of a chancel, sometimes surrounding an apse and therefore semicircular or polygonal in plan.

DEF

A passageway around the chair in the apse or chancel or a cathedral ...

CONT

... the east end of a cathedral was ... apsidal, the main apse being surrounded at a lower level by a processional path known as the ambulatory, which linked the eastern ends of the north and south aisles.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Architecture
DEF

Partie tournante des bas-côtés autour de l'abside.

DEF

Galerie courbe qui fait le tour du chœur [...]

CONT

[...] autour de la galerie de circulation entourant le chœur (déambulatoire), une série de chapelles secondaires dont l'axe de chacune rayonne au centre du chœur.

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Arquitectura
DEF

Pasillo circular que, en las iglesias, rodea el altar mayor por detrás.

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