In the transepts the arches open directly on the side chapels, the southern arm being gorgeous with brilliant glass.
Both the transepts and the west front contain rose windows of good, though not remarkable design, and each is exceedingly generous in size.
The transepts vary as to their windows, and the triforium arches are here at a different level from those in the nave.
The rose windows of the transepts have graceful design and good framing, though the glass is not of the splendour which we associate with the most pleasing examples seen elsewhere.
The apse is rounded in the usual form, and on either side extend transepts to the width of two bays.
The interior spreads itself out in severe and imposing lines with hardly a remarkable feature in either transepts or nave.
The transepts are practically non-existent, as the widening does not extend beyond the extent of the nave chapels.
An unusual feature is the circumambient aisles to the transepts and the suggestion that a trefoil apsidal termination was originally thought of, when the rebuilding was taken in hand in the twelfth century.
The transepts are mere rudimentary elements, suggested only by the interior arrangement of the piers, and are simple and impressive.
The transepts followed in the next century, and the façade as late as the fifteenth, or the beginning of the sixteenth, century.
The transepts are of quite idyllic proportions, each possessing an ample rose window which makes up in design and framing what it may lack in the quality of glass with which it is set.
The doors of the north and south Transepts are also flanked by towers, but they do not rise beyond the cornice line.
The transepts contain some good glass, as also do the windows in the chancel.
At the crossing of the transepts is the beautiful but greatly mutilated tomb of Prince Juan, the only son of Ferdinand and Isabella, by whose untimely death the crown of Spain passed to Austria.
Eastwards, therefore, did Almanzor extend his building, and the whole space in this direction from the transepts or Crucero of the present church, in a line north and south, was due to his initiative.
It runs round the whole church and in the transepts and choir these two occur together.
In the transepts are two magnificent wheel windows full of good glass, indeed I know of no better scheme of colour than that which adorns this window on the south side.
There is no triforium, and the transepts do not project beyond the nave.
The Clerestory windows eastward of the Transepts offer the means of representing the "Glorious Company of the Apostles.
The most highly developed transeptsof this tunnel-vaulted, half-domed type are probably those in the church of Saint Mary of the Capitol at Cologne, where a groin-vaulted ambulatory is found around each transept apse.
In such transepts the side aisles are vaulted just as those belonging to naves of a corresponding period, and therefore require no discussion here.
In Romanesque transepts of this type, the vaults are in the form either of simple half domes, or of tunnel vaults ending in such domes, according as the transept arms are lengthened or left merely in the form of apses.
Somewhat similar in plan are the transeptsof Tournai cathedral in Belgium (between cir.
These transepts were finished a little later, when the nave was begun and finished, and the north porch built in the thirteenth century.
Of this building we still see the tower, the transepts and the lower part of what remains of the nave, and the arcade to the south.
The great Norman church which Bishop Walkelin built to take the place of the Saxon minster cannot fundamentally have differed very much from the church we see, at any rate so far as its nave and transepts were concerned.
The earliest part of the church is the chancel, which has a square eastern end, and the lower parts of the transepts probably date from the same time.
It is doubtful, however, whether the nave was ever built, the ruins of the transepts and of two piers of the tower only remain.
The transepts remain to us still, but the nave was transformed, in the very beginning of the Perpendicular time.
When all this was done there remained of the old Norman church only the transepts and the nave.
The transformed choir transepts are his work, and he erected the organ screen, bishop's throne, and sedilia.
He it was who designed the Decorated cathedral and transformed transepts with chapels, eastern bay of the nave, and the Lady Chapel.
It is three hundred and thirty-three feet long, the transepts two hundred and twenty-five feet wide, and the stone dome two hundred and fifty feet high, making it the largest church in Canada.
By means of these screens, however, the persons in the transepts are needlessly excluded from a view of the altar.
The choir and transepts formed the priory church, in the possession of the prior and canons until the dissolution of the monastery, when it passed to the dean and chapter.
After the civil wars it was cut off from the transepts by a stone wall, and furnished with galleries and a pulpit.
The nave was provided with north and south aisles covered with high-pitched wooden roofs, while the north and south transepts were also roofed in a similar manner, and a small apsidal chapel projected from the eastern face of each.
The Church of Saint Leonard is a noble structure, with two massive Transition towers at the west end; the choir is First Period, the nave and aisles and transepts date from the fourteen hundreds.
The transepts may bring us, then, as we remember this, the thought of sacrifice, that our lives to be truly Christian must have the spirit of the Cross worked into them.
The transepts are the part of the church which gives to the building the cruciform shape.
It consisted of a nave, transepts and choir, with fan-tracery vault, of which some fragments have been lately fixed in the cloister wall.
Other repairs were necessary, for the pier-arches of the same bays in nave and transepts were completely shattered, and had to be replaced by the present ones, the queer-looking capitals of which contrast so oddly with the earlier work.
These transepts are connected with the aisles by an arch, the lower part of which is closed by wooden doors.
Of the capitals those on the west side of both transepts are of one style and abound in representations of the toothache.
The eastern aisles of thetransepts are divided off into chapels by two Perpendicular stone screens, that of the south transept having a doorway in it for each chapel.
He built the greater part of the present nave transepts and choir; for this end he made large gifts to the fabric fund, and collected gifts from others.
The transepts of the choir are very happily carried far enough east to be internally subordinate to this chapel, which arrangement, with the apsidal form of the chapel itself, adds much to the beautiful proportions of the church.
The reparation here mentioned refers in all probability to the roof and piers of the transepts and eastern part of nave, damaged by the fall of the tholus.
The galleries of the transepts have ornamented oak fronts, and were used by the lay portion of the ancient congregation.
The transepts with their chevron mouldings and the principal doorway are of that period, and we may regard them as an offering in expiation of the early heathen raids on Lambay, Saint Patrick's Isle, and the early schools of the church.
From one of the transepts a side door generally led to the domestic buildings, the dormitory, the refectory, the chapter house, where the friars assembled in conclave under the presidency of the abbot.
Saxon and Norman spires are very rare in England, Sompting being our best example of the former and those on the eastern transepts of Canterbury Cathedral of the latter.
In some of our churches is to be seen a squint, an opening in an oblique direction through a wall or pier for the purpose of enabling persons in the aisles or transepts to see the elevation of the Host at the high altar.
Fortunately, although after considerable hesitation, they chose the latter alternative, the result being the genesis of our glorious cathedrals with their long naves and aisles, deep transepts and beautiful variety of form and outline.
They began with the renewal of the transepts and then proceeded with the erection of the nave and chapter house, and of the Lady Chapel and choir.
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.
The great dimensions of the transepts with the lofty lantern in the centre and the “Five Sisters” at the northern end, filled in with ancient brownish-green glass, combine to make this the finest internal view.
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.
It is a cruciform building and has a fine central tower, and is remarkable in havingtransepts and chancel built externally of brick as long ago as the Decorated Period.
The plan is cruciform, and there are aisles to the transepts as well as the nave, giving a wealth of pillars to the interior.
Both transepts and the chancel appear to have been destroyed with the conventual buildings, and the present chancel is merely a portion of the nave separated with screens.
The interior of the transepts and chancel is extremely interesting, but entirely lacking in that perfection of form characterizing York.
Of the domestic buildings practically nothing remains, while the choir of the church, the central tower, and north transepts are roofless and extremely beautiful ruins.
Melrose Abbey is a very satisfactory ruin, all carpeted along its nave and transepts with green grass; and there are some well-grown trees within the walls.
The greatest length, from east to west, is about two hundred and ten feet, and the breadth in the transepts is about a hundred and seventy feet.
Cormac's Chapel consists of a nave and choir, but has neither transeptsnor lateral aisles.
Sometimes the transepts have no aisles, or an aisle only on one side.
The eastern arm and the transepts are each ornamented by an apse, somewhat smaller than would be met with in a German church; but as a compensation each of these three arms has two side apses, as well as the one at the end.
The transepts usually consist of well-marked limbs, divided like the nave into a centre avenue and two side aisles, and these usually are of the same width and height as the nave and its aisles.
At the crossing of the nave and transepts a low dome rises, covered by a conical roof, and surmounted by an elegant marble spire.
On the other hand the series of piers, or columns, from which spring the arches which separate the central avenues of nave, transeptsand choir from the aisles, are among the most prominent features in every church.
The best known group is the celebrated one of "the five sisters," five lofty single lights, occupying the eastern end of one of the transepts of York Minster.
As we now see it, it consists of a vast vestibule; a nave of four bays with side aisles; a vast square central space over which hangs the great dome; transepts and a choir, each of one bay and an apse.
The facades of cathedrals, including ends of transepts as well as west fronts, are most striking, and often magnificently enriched.
Its plan includes a nave, with aisles and side chapels, transepts and a choir.
The west fronts of Cathedrals were the most important architectural designs of this sort, and with them we may include the ends of the transepts and the east fronts.
The point in a church where the transepts cross the nave.
The 'Nefs' and the transepts are the most ancient, their construction dating from the thirteenth century.
We reached the end of it at length, only to find that to right and left ran transepts on a like gigantic scale and lit in the same amazing fashion.
The transepts do not project beyond the aisles: but have distinct transept arches, and a window of much larger dimensions than those in the aisles.
The doors in the transepts are, in small churches, almost invariably east or west: much more frequently the latter.
The transepts display a variety of arches and windows, of irregular arrangement, both round and pointed.
Both these transepts are profusely enriched with embattled and other mouldings.
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