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CHEVET , the See also:term employed in See also:French See also:architecture to distinguish the apsidal end of a See also:- CHURCH
- CHURCH (according to most authorities derived from the Gr. Kvpcaxov [&wµa], " the Lord's [house]," and common to many Teutonic, Slavonic and other languages under various forms—Scottish kirk, Ger. Kirche, Swed. kirka, Dan. kirke, Russ. tserkov, Buig. cerk
- CHURCH, FREDERICK EDWIN (1826-1900)
- CHURCH, GEORGE EARL (1835–1910)
- CHURCH, RICHARD WILLIAM (1815–189o)
- CHURCH, SIR RICHARD (1784–1873)
church, in which the apses or chapels radiate See also:round the See also:choir See also:aisle. The two earliest examples (11th and 12th See also:century) are found in the churches of St Hilaire, See also:Poitiers, and Notre See also:Dame-du-See also:Port, Clermont, where there are four apses. A more usual number is five, and the central See also:apse, being of larger dimensions, becomes the See also:Lady See also:chapel. This was the See also:case in See also:Westminster See also:Abbey, where See also:- HENRY
- HENRY (1129-1195)
- HENRY (c. 1108-1139)
- HENRY (c. 1174–1216)
- HENRY (Fr. Henri; Span. Enrique; Ger. Heinrich; Mid. H. Ger. Heinrich and Heimrich; O.H.G. Haimi- or Heimirih, i.e. " prince, or chief of the house," from O.H.G. heim, the Eng. home, and rih, Goth. reiks; compare Lat. rex " king "—" rich," therefore " mig
- HENRY, EDWARD LAMSON (1841– )
- HENRY, JAMES (1798-1876)
- HENRY, JOSEPH (1797-1878)
- HENRY, MATTHEW (1662-1714)
- HENRY, PATRICK (1736–1799)
- HENRY, PRINCE OF BATTENBERG (1858-1896)
- HENRY, ROBERT (1718-1790)
- HENRY, VICTOR (1850– )
- HENRY, WILLIAM (1795-1836)
Henry III. introduced the chevet into See also:England; Henry VII.'s chapel is built on the site of the See also:original Lady chapel, which must have been of exceptional See also:size, as it extended the whole length of the See also:present structure. In Solignac, See also:Fontevrault and Paray-le-Monial there are only three, in these cases sufficiently distant one from the other to allow of a window between. The usual number in all the See also:great cathedrals of the 13th century, as in See also:Bourges, See also:Chartres, See also:Reims, See also:Troyes, See also:Tours, See also:Bayeux, See also:Antwerp and See also:Bruges, is five. In See also:Beauvais, See also:Amiens and See also:Cologne there are seven apsidal chapels, and in See also:Clairvaux nine radiating but rectangular chapels. In the 14th and 15th centuries the central apse was increased in size and dedicated to the Virgin See also:Mary, as in St Ouen at See also:Rouen.
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