The three naves are separated below the choir by prismatic pillars supporting light and bold arches.
The interior is divided into threenaves by wooden partitions, consisting of pillars without capitals supporting pointed arches.
The interior has no transept, but is composed of three naves under one roof.
From this it will be seen that before the tower fell the naves of Ely and Peterborough were almost exactly of the same length, while the former had two more bays than the latter.
The naves of Ely and Peterborough are conspicuously the best examples of the period in England.
In plan the cathedral consists of three parallel naves of ten bays, all finished with apses.
What a grand idea it was on the part of the preaching orders to build these enormous naves for their congregations!
The naves of York and Durham Cathedral were fashionable promenades.
They are like the naves of cathedrals, and there are pillars in them.
The interior is divided into three naves by columns bearing rounded arches.
In 1717 the church suffered considerably by fire, but it was repaired forthwith, and to-day gives the effect of a fairly well cared for building of three naves and a double choir.
The interior is divided into three naves by numerous great and small pillars of a polygonal form, the capitals only bearing any traces of modelling.
In form St. Clement's is frankly a Hallenkirche, with the three naves of equal height.
The interior is divided into three naves by two ranges of pillars, square and very short.
Legend steps in and says that "the naves of the cathedral were inundated by the libations which went on at this funeral ceremony.
The naves were in general twice the width of their aisles, and the bays of the nave were made twice the width of those of the aisles.
It is a basilica of five naves and two Romanesque towers.
He it is that constitutes the wheel of the year, having three naves and seven horses to drag it.
We might have expected, therefore, a design something like that in the naves of Exeter or Worcester; but the York builders were ambitious.
This is the first example of this treatment, which was so happily followed in the naves of Winchester and Canterbury, in an English cathedral.
The naves of English cathedrals are too apt to look like splendid museums rather than places of worship, and this is peculiarly the case with the nave at York.
Churches were, in fact, museums, and places in which to transact business; the naves constantly being thus used.
Gérard be Moret was the builder of the chapter house, an oblong edifice divided into two naves by a row of four central columns, paved with encaustic tiles and illuminated with stained glass.
For this and for other reasons the naves were long.
Three vertical wheels illuminated, which turn on their own naves upon a horizontal table, is a piece readily formed.
Their naves are made of one piece, which, from the barrel of the fourth, to the commencement of the sixth, is fourteen inches.
Wheels were again ornamented, as in the times of the old Roman empire; the spokes were shaped and carved, the rims moulded, and the naves highly embossed.
The naves were of elm, the spokes of oak, and the rims or felloes of ash or beech.
The area is a quadrangle of three hundred and ninety-eight feet by two hundred and ninety-one, and is divided into five naves by four rows of pillars, all of about sixty feet elevation.
These dimensions are exclusive of three recesses on either side, forming chapels open to the nave, there being no lateral navesor aisles.
The principal light entering from the western extremity, you do not at first perceive that three of the five naves terminate at the opposite end, by half domes of more modern invention.
The dome is vast and magnificent, there are five naves and many side chapels, all containing splendid works of art.
There are seven naves with monstrous columns, the loftiness of the interior conveying a sense of vastness which has been often described by travellers.
And the said naves have galleries, and the galleries open on the body of the church, and these have other twenty-four marble columns of green jasper; and the roof of the hall and the walls are of mosaic work.
And the elevated walks of the naves open over the body of the church,[80] and where a balustrade should be found there are small marble columns of jasper.
The forest was wrapped in solemn quietude, the lofty naves quivered only with the soft footsteps of the young pair.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "naves" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
