Church

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The religion founded on the teachings of Jesus Christ, including the Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox Churches.

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Christianity

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A building for public Christian Worship

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church

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An early Christian church, characterized by a long, rectangular plan, a hugh colonnaded nave lit by a clerestory and covered by a timbered gable roof, two or four lower side aisles, a semicircular apse at the end, a narthex, and often other features such as an atrium, a bema, and small semicircular apses terminating the aisles.

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Basilica

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The forecourt of an early Christian church, flanked or surrounded by porticoes.

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Atrium

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The covered walk of an atrium or cloister.

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Ambulatory

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A basin for a ritual cleansing with water in the atrium of an early Christian basilica.

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Cantharus

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A semicircular or polygonal projection of a building usually vaulted and used especially at the sanctuary or east end of a church.

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Apse or Apsis

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A transverse open space separating the nave and the apse of an early Christian churchm developing into the transept of later cruciform churches.

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Bema

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A sacred or holy place, as that part of a church in which the principal altar is placed.

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Sanctuary

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The table in a Christian church upon which the Eucharist, the sacrament celebrating Christ’s Last Supper, is celebrated.

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Altar or Communion’s Table

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an ornamental canopy of stone or marble permanently placed over the altar in church.

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Baldachino or Baldachin, Baldaquin, or Ciborium

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The principal or central part of a church, extending from the narthex to the choir or chancel and usually flanked by aisles.

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Nave

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Any of the longitudinal divisions of a church, separated from the nave by a row of columns or piers.

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aisle

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Either of two raised stands from which the Gospels or Epistles were read or chanted in an early Christian Church.

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Ambo or Ambon

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A part of a church or a separate building in which baptism is administered.

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Baptistry or Baptistery

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A sacrament of initiation into Christianity, symbolic of spiritual regeneration, marked by a ceremonial immersion or application of water.

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Baptism

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A basin, usually of stone, holding the water used in baptism.

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Font

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A portico or vestibule before the nave of an early Christian or Byzantine church, occupied by those not yet christened.

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Narthex

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An inner narthex when two are present.

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Esonarthex

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A covered walk or outer narthex situated before an inner narthex.

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Exonarthex

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A lowscreen in an early Christian basilica, separating the clergy and sometimes the choir from the congregation.

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Cancelli

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A stone coffin, especially one bearing sculpture or insciptions and displayed as monument.

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Sarcophagus

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The sanctuary space surrounding the altar of an Eastern church.

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Bema

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A sacristy in an early Christian or Eastern Church, usually on the south side of the bema.

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Diaconicon

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A room in achurch wher ethe sacred vessels and vestments are kept.

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Sacristry or Vestry

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A chapel in an Eastern Church where the eeucharistic elements are prepared, usually on the north side of the bema.

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Prothesis

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A large apsidal extension of the interior volume of a church.

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Exedra or Exhedra

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A screen or parition on which icons are placed, separating the bema from the nave of an Eastern church.

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Iconostasis or Iconostas

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A representation of a sacred Christian personage such as Christ or a saint or angel, typically painted on a wood surface and itself venerated as being sacred, especially in the tradition of the Eastern Church.

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Icon

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The major transverse part of a cruciform church, crossing the main axis at a right angle between the nave and choir.

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Transept

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The intersection of the nave and transept in a cruciform church.

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Crossing

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A tall, acutely tapering pyramidal structure surmounting a steeple or tower.

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Spire

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A tall ornamental structure, usually ending in a spire and surmounting the tower of a church or other public building.

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steeple

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A bell tower, usually one near but not attached to the body of a church.

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Campanile

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A bulbous, domelike roof terminating in a sharp point, used especially in Russian orthodox church architecture to cover a cupola or tower.

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Onion Dome (see Basil Cathedral)

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The monumental western front of a Romanesque church, treated as a tower or towers containing a low entrance hall below and a chapel open to the nave above.

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Westwork (see Ottonian architecture)

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A rose window having distinctly radiating mullions or bars.

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**Wheel window**, also Catherine Wheel, marigold window. (rose window?) (see Duomo Wheel Window)

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The space between an arch and the horizontal head of a door or window below, often decorated with sculpture.

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Tympanum

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A column supporting the tympanum of a doorway at its center.

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Trumeau

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A canopied recess for a religious image or icon.

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Tabernacle

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A roofed promenade especially one extending inside or outside alng the exterior wall of a building.

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Gallery

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A gallery or upper level in a church or hall.

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Loft

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An indigenous Scandinavian church of the 12th and 13th centuries, having a timber frame, plank walls, a tiered, steeply pitched roof, and few windows.

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Stave Church

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The dwelling of a hermit, more generally, a secluded place of residence or habitation for a religious person or group.

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Hermitage (see Saint Petersburg Hermitage Museum)

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A series of arches supported on piers or columns.

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Arcade

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Curved or arched like a bow, a term used in describing the arched or vaulted structure of a Romanesque church or Gothic cathedral, as distinguished from the trabeated architecture of an Egyptian hypostyle hall or Greek Doric Temple.

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Arcuate or Arcuated

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A pier or plaster projecting from a wall as a support for an arch or lintel, especially at the termination of an arcade or colonnade.

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Respond

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A thickened abacus or supplementary capital set above a column capital to receive the thrust of an arch.

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Dosseret or Impost Block

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a person living in solitude as a religious discipline.

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Hermit

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An arcade especially a blind one, composed of arches resting on alternate supports and overlapping in series where they cross.

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Interlacing Arcad or Intersecting Arcade

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A series of arches superimposed on a wall for decoration.

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Blind arcade or Arcature

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A slender spire rising from the ridge of a roof especially one above the crossing of a Gothic church.

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Fleche

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A relatively small, usually foliated ornament terminating the peak of a spire or pinnacle.

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Finial

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A projecting ornament, usually in the form of curved foliage, used especially in Gothic architecture to decorate the outer angles of pinnacles, spires and gables.

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Crocket

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A grotesquely carved figure of a human or animal especially one with an open mouth that serves as a spout and projects from a gutter to throw rainwater clear of a building.

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Gargoyle

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The principal church of a diocese, containing the bishop's throne called the cathedra.

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Cathedral (see Bristol Cathedral)

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A church or other edifice erected over the tomb of a martyr.

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Martyrium (see Santo Stefano Rotondo in Rome)

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A typical Byzantine church plan having nine bays. The center bay is a large square surmounted by a dome, the smaller square corner bays are domed or vaulted, and the rectangular side bays are barrel vaulted.

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Cross-in-square

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A separately dedicated part of a church for private prayer, meditation or small religious services.

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Chapel

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The space about the altar of a church for the clergy and choir, often elevated above the nave and separated from it by a railing or screen.

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Chancel

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The rounded east end of a Gothic cathedral, including the apse and ambulatory.

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Chevet

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An aisle encircling the end of the coir or chancel of a church.

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Ambulatory or Deambulatory

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A chapel endowed for the saying of Masses and prayers for the souls of the founders or of persons named by them.

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Chantry

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A mazelike pattern inlaid in the pavement of a medieval church.

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Labyrinth

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A circular window, usually of stained glass and decorated with tracery symmetrical about the center.

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Rose Window

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Glass colored or stained by having pigments baked onto its surface or by having various metallic oxides fused into it while in a molten state.

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Stained Glass

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The part of a church occupied by the singers of a choir, usually part of the chancel.

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Choir

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A separate division behind the choir or high altar of a large church.

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Retrochoir

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A chapel dedicated to the Virgin Mary, usually located behind the high altar of a cathedral at the extremity of the apse.

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Lady Chapel

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The main altar of a church.

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High Altar

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The part of a church reserved for the officiating clergy.

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Presbytery

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An enclosed place especially the land surrounding or beside a cathedral.

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Close

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A covered passage especially one between the transept and chapter house of a cathedral.

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Slype or Slip

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The place where the chapter of a cathedral or monastery meets, usually a building attached to or a hall forming part of the cathedral or monastery.

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Chapter House

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An assembly of the monks in a monastery or the members of a religious house or order.

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Chapter

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A monastery under the supervision of an abbot, or a convent under the supervision of an abbess, belonging to the highest rank of such institutions.

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Abbey

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Head of monks

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Abbot

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head of nuns

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abbess

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An atrium or cloister beside a church.

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Paradise

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A covered walk having an arcade or colonnade on one side opening onto a courtyard.

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Cloister

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A covered place for walking, as around a cloister.

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Ambulatory

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A courtyard or quadrangle enclosed by a cloister.

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Garth or Cloister Garth

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A walk or passage, as along a cloister or behind the parapets of a castle.

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Alure

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A small porch used as a chapel for penitents at the west end of some medieval English churches.

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Galilee or Galilee Porch

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An arcaded story in a church, between the nave arches and clerestory and corresponding to the space between the vaulting and the roof of an aisle.

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Triforium

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An underground chamber or vault used as a burial place, especially one beneath the main floor of a church.

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Crypt

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A crucifix symbolizing the cross on which Christ was crucified especially a large one set above the entrance to the choir or chancel of a medieval church.

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Rood

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A screen, often elaborately adorned and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the chancel or choir from the nave of a medieval church.

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Rood Screen