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Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.
Game pieces of Cathedral in military projection, numbers denoting footprint in squares. *Only the Abbey and Academy are chiral in gameplay. Cathedral is played on a wooden board divided into a 10x10 grid and enclosed by turreted walls, representing a medieval city. It is played with 29 pieces, each of which are small abstracts of buildings: 14 ...
Cathedral game pieces: Image title: Game pieces of the Cathedral board game in military projection by CMG Lee. Numbers denote footprint in squares. * Only the Abbey and Academy are chiral in gameplay. Width: 100%: Height: 100%
Lincoln Cathedral had a chapter of secular canons, for whom the earliest polygonal chapter house was built.. The 26 cathedrals described in this article are those of Bristol, Canterbury, Carlisle, Chester, Chichester, Durham, Ely, Exeter, Gloucester, Hereford, Lichfield, Lincoln, Manchester, Norwich, Oxford, Peterborough, Ripon, Rochester, St. Alban's, Salisbury, Southwark, Southwell, Wells ...
Cathedral ground plan. The shaded area is the transept; the darker shading at the centre represents the crossing. South transept at Kilcooly Abbey, County Tipperary, Ireland. A transept (with two semitransepts) is a transverse part of any building, which lies across the main body of the building. [1]
Initial construction on the cathedral began in 1163, but it took more than 100 years to complete. During the 17th and 18th centuries, the cathedral underwent major restorations and additions.
The cathedral often had its origins in a monastic foundation and was a place of worship for members of a holy order who said the mass privately at a number of small chapels within the cathedral. The cathedral often became a place of worship and burial for wealthy local patrons.
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