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A floor plan or photo (or anything) would be helpful. It's just possible
there is no special name for the unusual arrangement you describe unless
it's "mini-transept" or "micro-transept"...
MG
p.s. If you're a member of the medieval art list, they would know. If you're
not, I'll ask a friend to post for you.
>From: Diana Wright <[log in to unmask]>
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>Subject: [M-R] Not a transept
>Date: Sun, 9 Oct 2005 10:32:53 -0700
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>In each of the surviving 13th C Dominican churches in Greece [Ag. Pareskevi
>in Chalkis, St. Nicholas in Chanea, St. Peter Martyr in Candia] the
>squared-off "apse" has flanking chapels. The body of the nave is too
>narrow to include all the width of the outer chapels, so the area in front
>of the chapels is widened just enough to allow access to the chapels. In a
>normal transept church, this would be part of the transept, but these
>churches do not have transepts. What would you call this area?
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>I can supply a photo & floor plan if necessary.
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>DW
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>ps It is beginning to look as if these may be the only early
>Dominican-built churches that retain their original floor plans.
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