The aisled choir extends only two bays eastwards from the crossing, beyond which point the presbytery is carried one bay farther, without aisles, and is lighted by large north and south windows as well as by the great eastern window.
We feel it in a long-aisled Gothic temple; the Spaniard feels it when standing beneath the croisee of his cathedral churches.
There are few five-aisled churches such as this in Germany, or indeed elsewhere, Cologne being Germany's chief example in this style.
The church proper consists of a three-aisled nave, with the usual choir appendage in what must pass for acceptable Gothic.
Eastward of this cloister extend the hall and chapel of the infirmary, resembling in form and arrangement the nave and chancel of an aisled church.
Four three-aisled wings form the arms of a cross, meeting in a central octagonal open court, in the midst of which stood the column of the saint.
Byzantine architecture, on the other hand, rarely produced the simple three-aisled or five-aisled basilica, and nearly all its monuments were vaulted.
Both reproduced in a measure the plan of the Pisa Cathedral, having a three-aisled nave and transepts, with a low dome over the crossing.
It has two forecourts adorned with double-aisled colonnades and connected by what seems to be an unfinished hypostyle hall.
It has complete double aisles in both nave and choir, three-aisled transepts, radial chevet-chapels and twin western towers.
These are one-aisled churches with internal buttresses separating the lateral chapels.
This remarkable little building, like several others of its class, consists of nave with aisle all round, aisled chancel with apse and an open cloister girdling the structure.
The dim light could but feebly illuminate the many-pillared, long-aisled building, and gave to the vast edifice something of a cavern look.
What are embattled cities and aisled cathedrals to the eternal hills, with their thunder-clouds, and their rising and setting suns?
It had been built by Him whose power laid the foundations of the earth, and hung the stars in heaven; and it had been consecrated by sacrifices such as Rome's mitred priests never offered in aisled cathedral.
The hall, however, was sometimes too wide to be roofed in one span without support, and consequently aisled halls became very usual, divided either by regular arcades with a clerestory above or by upright posts of wood.
A peculiar arrangement was adopted in the fourteenth-century infirmary at Westminster, where the hall was removed and a number of separate rooms were arranged round a cloister, the aisled chapel of the hall being retained on the east side.
On the other hand, the eastern limbs at Jervaulx, Rievaulx, Tintern, and elsewhere were rebuilt in the thirteenth century upon the ordinary aisled rectangular plan.
The nave at Lilleshall was never provided with aisles: the same thing happened at Kirkham, where the eastern arm was fully aisled in the thirteenth century.
Christchurch and St Botolph's at Colchester are conspicuous instances of Augustinian conventual naves which wereaisled in the twelfth century.
At Ely and Canterbury the Norman infirmaries were divided by stone arcades and clerestoried; while at Gloucester and Peterborough there are substantial remains of aisled infirmaries of the thirteenth century.
The aisled portion, however, was sometimes planned, as at Bristol, to include the quire and presbytery and a bay for the processional path behind the high altar: this was also the plan of the church of secular canons at Southwell.
It is evident that churches of Gilbertine canons, as at Malton, sometimes followed an ordinary aisled plan.
It has been suggested that this partial addition of aisles may have been caused by the canons' desire to rival aisled Benedictine churches.
But the Cistercian order preferred chapter-houses divided into alleys by rows of columns, and the influence of their beautiful buildings may be seen in the aisled chapter-houses of Lacock or of the Premonstratensian abbey of Beeleigh.
Not the Wizard of the Dee Ever such a dream could see, Not St. John in Patmos Isle In the passion of his toil When he saw the churches seven Golden-aisled built up in heaven Gaz'd at such a rugged wonder.
The double-aisled ambulatory as at Avila is unique and beautiful in its effect.
He began by building at the rear of the Norman church a new aisledchoir of nine bays.
The nave of St. Denis was taken down in 1798; the aisledchoir and a modern tower now form the church.
He formed out of the ruins of the old one a choir, and, in front, built a wide tower with transepts and an aisled nave.
The Norman edifice was then taken down and replaced by a new aisled nave of eight bays, transepts of three bays with eastern aisles, and lofty tower with spire.
As the small aisleless choir at York did not appeal to him, he replaced it with a large crypt and aisled choir, which would present less contrast with the glorious choir he had left.
Of the three-aisled basilicas the best example is the Liberian or S.
Eadmer's description, we see that it was an aisled basilica, with an apse at either end, containing altars standing on raised platforms approached by steps.
The only parts of the modernized five-aisled basilica of St John Lateran (of which we have a plan in its original state, Agincourt, pl.
At Mshattâ, where the lîwân was unknown, its place was taken by an aisledhall on a basilical plan.
The double-aisled abbey church of Souvigny, which has a clerestory, might be cited as an exception to this statement, but judging from the narrowness of its inner aisles (Fig.
In old times the guardians of the frail beauties for whose delectation the garden had been made, had lived in the crypt-like vaulted rooms which opened out from this aisled passage; so keeping the gate against illegal wanderings.
At least in the two upper storeys; for the lower one was more solid, its chief feature being a wide, aisled passage leading right through it to a door which gave on the courtyard.
It was a long aisled church, that was unbroken from end to end, but the choir-proper was shut off from its aisles by walls of stone as at St Albans.
The work done at Grantham in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries illustrates the purely natural development of the ordinary aisled church into the aisled rectangle.
The fact remains that, in the early age of our church architecture in stone, the aisled basilica was a rare exception, and the rectangular chancel was, in the north, at least as common as the apse.
To this is due the adoption, from the beginning, of the aisled plan in our larger churches, where it is a direct inheritance from the basilican plan.
Instances in which a transeptal chapel is aisled are even less common.
The cruciform plan of Melbourne, Derbyshire, with its aisled nave, was probably inspired more directly by continental examples.
The aisled nave and the traces of a crypt bring it into relation, not merely with Hexham or Ripon, but with the historical church plan of western Europe generally.
It has sometimes been fathered upon aisled naves of friary churches, which, like the great nave of the Black friars at Norwich, afforded space for large congregations who came to hear sermons.
But only one church in the group, the ruined church of Reculver, followed the plan of the aisled nave of the basilica.
The aisled plan of the parish church was arrived at in spite, not in consequence, of the few early aisled churches which might have supplied it with a model.
Thus Augustine and his companions contented themselves in most instances with a plan which recalled the aisled basilica, without following out its more elaborate details.
The most common plan of the aisled church is formed by an aisled nave with a long aisleless chancel, western tower, and south porch.
At Lynn, the thirteenth century west tower, with a spire, was kept at the south-west corner of the aisled building.
The greatest glory of Autun Cathedral, is its magnificent two-storied, barrel vaulted, open porch with aisled bays, forming the western entrance.
It cannot be said that the lamp of truth is upheld, since the frontispiece makes no pretense to express the three-aisled interior, but rises above the roof like an abstract screen.
Again in the XVI century the church was partly rebuilt, so that the double-aisled nave of to-day appears a beautiful example of Renaissance art.
The double-aisled choir is garnished with sculptured stalls of the fifteenth century, and, separated from its aisles by a stone screen, is of much larger proportions than the nave, and likewise of a later epoch of building.
The west door once opened into a three-aisled porch now gone.
It is also unique among the aisled and vaulted churches in copying Batalha by having a well-developed clerestory and flying buttresses.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aisled" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
