At Worcester the aisleless bay was the Lady chapel, and the high altar stood west of the processional path.
Some of their earliest churches, as at Waverley and Tintern, had aisleless naves, short transepts, each with one rectangular chapel upon its eastern side and an aisleless rectangular presbytery.
The canons also had a chapel on the south side of their own cloister, which was a simple aisleless rectangle.
Nuns' churches, such as Nun Monkton in Yorkshire, were very generally planned as aisleless rectangles, for the obvious reason that little more than one altar was necessary.
The infirmary hall in its simplest form was an aisleless oblong, on either side of which was a row of beds.
Similarly the plan of presbytery and transepts at Bolton and Brinkburn is distinctly Cistercian in origin, and, when the presbytery at Bolton was lengthened in the fourteenth century, its aisleless form was retained.
Both churches have eastern transepts, and in both cases the high vault was continued to the end of an aisleless eastern projection, in which the high altar stood at Rochester with a clear space behind it.
At Fountains, it was an aisleless hall, lying between the infirmary hall and the abbot's lodging, and must have been served through the infirmary hall from the kitchen.
But in the larger houses, especially of the Benedictines, it was often anaisleless hall occupying the whole height of the range.
Such a plan obviously gave little scope for processions, while the number of altars was limited by the aisleless presbytery.
The presbytery, aisleless and rectangular, projected some two bays east of the crossing, the high altar being placed slightly in advance of the east wall.
Kentish" plan of aisleless nave with apsidal chancel; (3) the plan of aisleless nave with rectangular chancel.
The aisleless chancel was vaulted, and ended in an apse, which was squared in later times by the addition of a rectangular piece east of its springing points.
A small aisleless nave at Stretton in Rutland received a north aisle about the beginning of the thirteenth century.
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The nave of the Norman aisleless church was usually short, and, where the church was entirely rebuilt, rather wide in proportion to its length.
At Birkin in Yorkshire, the south aisle was not built till the middle of the fourteenth century, but the doorway was removed to its new position from the wall of the aisleless church.
At Caistor the ground floor was probably the main porch of the aisleless church; and there are exceptional instances, as at Finchingfield in Essex, where, in fairly advanced Norman work, the same arrangement was clearly contemplated.
The eastern bay overlapped the western part of the aisleless chancel, its western buttress being in a line with the division between chancel and nave.
To this fine twelfth century aisleless church a north aisle was added in the fifteenth century.
In the small aisleless church of Patricio in Breconshire, in addition to the altar in the chancel, there were two smaller altars, which still remain in place, on either side of the central doorway of the rood screen.
The nave has aisles with transeptal chapels, very regular and symmetrical in plan, but is continued beyond the opening of the transeptal projections by an aisleless bay, east of which comes the chancel arch.
An aisleless Norman church had been enlarged at the end of the twelfth century by the addition of aisles to the nave, the connexion being formed by arcades of rounded arches springing from very elegant clustered columns.
In some late Gothic churches the structural division between nave and chancel is left out, and the building has been deliberately planned as a spacious aisleless rectangle, of which the eastern bay is allotted to the chancel.
The aisleless Norman church, however, had a central tower to the east of the present chancel arch and transepts, as well as a chancel.
Of these the simplest and probably the oldest is that of an aisleless nave with simple square chancel.
The church consists of an aisleless nave with good groined vaulting and a five-sided apsidal chancel.
The original plan must have been very like that of Braga, an aisleless transept, a nave and aisles of six bays, and two square towers beyond with a porch between.
It is not large, has an aisleless nave of four bays, a large porch with three wide pointed arches at the west, and a sort of domed chancel.
The three big bays of the aisleless nave are covered by Plantagenet Gothic vaults with eight branches, and along the walls are the same blind arcades and carved carbels as in the cathedral.
Perpignan's aisleless cathedral of St. Jean was begun in 1324 and finished, as the century ended, under the kings of Majorca, who then ruled the Roussillon.
During the first quarter of the XII century the aisleless nave was spanned by four cupolas on clearly defined pedestals.
The existing buildings consist chiefly of the remains of the church--an aisleless choir N.
Norman one, with aisleless nave, choir, and round E.
To the east of the transept is a choir of two bays, with aisles, and beyond which is an aisleless presbytery.
It consists of anaisleless choir, a nave with two aisles, a north-west tower, and a chapter-house to the north of the choir.
The buildings of the priory are now reduced to the nave--an aisleless structure--and to some underground vaulted buildings, which no doubt formerly supported the choir and other erections above.
The cathedral consists of a nave of eight bays, with north and south aisles, an aisleless choir of six bays, an eastern aisle unconnected with the choir except by a doorway, and the tower attached to the south aisle of nave.
The abbey church consisted of a choir of three bays, with side aisles and an aisleless presbytery; a nave of nine bays, with aisles and north and south transepts with eastern aisles; two western towers and one large central tower.
Muthill Church (Perthshire), has Norman tower at the west end, with nave having north and south aisles and an aisleless choir.
The peculiarity of Catalonia's churches is well illustrated in the aisleless Santa Maria del Mar, San Just, and Santa Maria del Pi.
It has a small aisleless church, the most remarkable feature of which is the wall separating the chancel (which is modern) from the nave.
The church is a small, aisleless building with a diminutive W.
It has an aisleless church, interesting only for (1) a good 15th-cent.
Its little aisleless church, which was once a chapelry of Alfred's monastery at Athelney, has a beautiful, though small, Perp.
Its total length of over four hundred and fifty feet ranks it among the longest in France, and its vast nave, with a span of sixty feet, aisleless though it be, gives a still further expression of grandeur and magnificence.
Over its aisleless nave is carried one of the boldest and most magnificent vaults known.
Other types of aislelessplans are the cruciform church with central tower, or simply nave and chancel with central tower.
Chancels are sometimes apsidal, but by far the most prevalent type of plan is the aisleless oblong nave and square-ended chancel, with or without a western tower.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "aisleless" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
