apses in English

noun
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a large semicircular or polygonal recess in a church, arched or with a domed roof, typically at the eastern end, and usually containing the altar.
They were seated at the midpoint of the nave, with us facing them backward, that is, toward the narthex rather than the apse of the cathedral.
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1. Light is not only let in through the "eye" in the front but also by a number of splay windows opening in the lateral walls and rising above the apses.

2. On the other side of the monument the cathedral is plain, except the aisle walls and three eastern apses, which are decorated with intersecting pointed arches and other ornaments inlaid in marble.

3. Within he would have chantries and chapels, apses alters, Adytums and sanctuaries, large enough, grand enough, beautiful enough, to be the proper dwelling place for the Spiritual Minds that would come often to its communion services, and find those things which are …

4. Within he would have chantries and chapels, apses alters, Adytums and sanctuaries, large enough, grand enough, beautiful enough, to be the proper dwelling place for the Spiritual Minds that would come often to its communion services, and find those things which are …

5. In architecture, an apse (plural apses; from Latin Absis: "arch, vault" from Greek ἀψίς apsis "arch"; sometimes written apsis, plural apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra.In Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Christian church (including cathedral and abbey) architecture, the term is applied to a …

6. The cathedral (dedicated to St Nicholas the Pilgrim, a Greek assassinated at Trani in 1094 and Canonized by Urban II.), on a raised open site near the sea, was consecrated, before its completion, in 1143; it is a basilica with three apses, a large crypt and a lofty tower, the latter erected in1230-1

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