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The transversal part of a church, which crosses at right angles to the greatest length, and between the nave and choir. In the basilicas, this had often no projection at its two ends. In Gothic churches these project greatly, and should be called the arms of the transept. It is common, however, to speak of the arms themselves as the transepts.

The western transept was 213 ft.

Like Lincoln, it had an eastern as well as a western transept, each furnished with apsidal chapels to the east.

The dormitory, as a rule, was placed on the east side of the cloister, running over the calefactory and chapter-house, and joined the south transept, where a flight of steps admitted the brethren into the church for nocturnal services.

The art of making stained xxv11.3 2 a glass windows was not practised by the Venetians; almost the only fine glass in Venice is that in a south transept window in the Dominican church, which, though designed by able Venetian painters, is obviously the work of foreigners.

His body lies under the altar in the north transept of the Gesil in Rome.

They represent the Early English style at its best, and the view across the great transept is unsurpassed for architectural effect.

The chief building in Agen is the cathedral of St Caprais, the most interesting portion of which is the apse of the 12th century with its three apse-chapels; the transept dates from the 12th and 13th centuries, the nave from the 14th to the 16th centuries; the tower flanking the south facade is modern.

Maria di Provenzano, a vast baroque building of some elegance, designed by Schifardini (1594) Sant' Agostino, rebuilt by Vanvitelli in 1755, containing a Crucifixion and Saints by Perugino, a Massacre of the Innocents by Matteo di Giovanni, the Coming of the Magi by Sodoma, and a St Anthony by Spagnoletto (?); the beautiful church of the Servites (15th century), which contains another Massacre of the Innocents by Matteo di Giovanni and other good examples of the Sienese school; San Francesco, designed by Agostino and Agnolo about 1326, and now restored, which once possessed many fine paintings by Duccio Buoninsegna, Lorenzetti, Sodoma and Beccafumi, some of which perished in the great fire of 1655; San Domenico, a fine 13th-century building with a single nave and transept, containing Sodoma's splendid fresco the Swoon of St Catherine, the Madonna of Guido da Siena, 1281, and a crucifix by Sano di Pietro.

In the interior the sculptured triforium (15th century), the spiral staircase in the transept and a Holy Sepulchre are of interest.

The cathedral, remarkable in having three towers over the transept, one of which is surmounted by a fine spire, dates from the 14th and 15th centuries.

La Chapelle is still older, dating nominally from 1210, the choir and transept being considered to date from about fifty years later.

It was the introduction of the apsidal chapels in the churches of France which eventually led to the chevet or cluster of eastern chapels in many of the great cathedrals, and also sometimes to the extension of the transept so as to include additional apsidal chapels on the east side.

The high altar (A) stands immediately to the east of the transept, or ritual choir; the altar of St Paul (B) in the eastern, and that of St Peter (C) in the western apse.

On the eastern side of the north transept is the "scriptorium" or writing-room (P 1), with the library above.

On the eastern side we find the remains of the dormitory, raised on a vaulted substructure and communicating with the south transept.

It consists of a vast nave of eleven bays, entered by a narthex, with a transept and short apsidal choir.

The chapter-house (C) always opened out of the east walk of the cloister in a line with the south transept.

Between it and the transept we find the sacristy (X), and a small book-room (Y), armariolum, where the brothers deposited the volumes borrowed from the library.

On the east side stands the two-aisled chapter-house (5), between which and the south transept is a small sacristy (3), and on the other side two small apartments, one of which was probably the parlour (6).

Above this whole range of building runs the monks' dormitory, opening by stairs into the south transept of the church.

The monks' dormitory was in its usual position above the chapter-house, to the south of the transept.

We may also call attention to the greatly lengthened choir, commenced by Abbot John of York, 1203-1211, and carried on by his successor, terminating, like Durham Cathedral, in an eastern transept, the work of Abbot John of Kent, 1220-1247, and to the tower (D), added not long before the dissolution by Abbot Huby, 1494-1526, in a very unusual position at the northern end of the north transept.

The restored north transept has a window of remarkable beauty.

The parish church of St Nicholas, an antiquated cruciform structure with curious Elizabethan work in the north transept, and monuments of the Chichester family, was originally a chapel or oratory dependent on a Franciscan monastery.

The nave was begun in 1096 and is Romanesque in style; the transept and choir, which contain magnificent stained glass of the Renaissance period, are of Gothic architecture.

The abbey, cruciform, is in the Decorated and Perpendicular styles, with pronounced French influence, due probably to the master mason John Morow, or Morreau, who, according to an inscription on the south transept wall, was born in Paris.

There now remain only the transept and choir, a unique example of the Early Pointed style.

It has an interesting and beautiful church (the Marien Kirche), with four spires (of which that on the transept is curiously crooked), built in the 13th century, and restored in 1876-1879; also several other ancient buildings, notably the town-hall, the Fiirstenhof (now administrative offices), and the Hexenthurm.

Two square unfinished towers flank the western entrance, and another rises above the transept.

The existing ruins comprise parts of the Early English choir, the north transept, also Early English but of later date, and the rich Decorated nave.

The whole of the south transept has perished.

The north transept, with early Decorated windows, has been covered in and walled off, and is the burial-ground of the Kerrs of Fernihirst, ancestors of the marquess of Lothian.

The vaulting of the nave takes the form of a series of cupolas, and that of the choir and transept is similar.

The cathedral, which was restored in 1884-1886, has a choir, a crypt and two towers of the 11th, a transept of the 13th and a late Gothic nave of the 16th century.

The crypt under the raised transept and choir is one of the largest in the world, and the church is one of the finest in Scandinavia.

Both were buried in the transept which Percy added to Dromore Cathedral.

On the highest ground in the city rises the cathedral, the interior of which was built after his death according to the plans of Giulio Romano; it has double aisles, a fine fretted ceiling, a dome-covered transept, a bad baroque façade, and a large unfinished Romanesque tower.

Gavin Dunbar, who followed him in 1518, was enabled to complete the structure by adding the two western spires and the southern transept.

The conventional foliage decorating the capitals is of great beauty and variety, and extends to spandrils, bosses, &c. In the spandrils of the arches of the nave, transept or choir arcades, diaper work is occasionally found, as in the transept of Westminster Abbey.

There remain a fragment of the south wing of the transept, two sides of the decagonal chapter-house (1282) and the beautiful west gate-house, Early Perpendicular (1332-1388), with an oriel window on the east.

The south transept has a half-timbered gable with restored Jacobean carving.

The S transept S window is a glorious piece of flowing tracery.

In 1843 another Chester architect, Thomas Jones, added the south transept, west tower, and perhaps two galleries.

Former Chapter House on north transept became Song School.

The south transept has a Rose Window inspired by Dante's Il Paradiso.

The fine Brindley & Foster organ in the north transept was given by Mr A F Hurt in 1880.

At the end of the service, some had wandered into the south transept.

The central transept is the feature of the new building.

Entering through the original south transept many relics of the old abbey can be seen.

It will form a magnificent backdrop to the new Baptistery being set up in the north nave transept.