Romanesque Churches of the Bourbonnais, A Database

Lexicon


- apse
- arch
- Auvergne
- barrel vault
- Bourbonnais
- builders
- Capetian
- capital
- Destiny of France
- Gothic
- nave
- petit appareil
- Plantagenets
- plot
- rib-vault
- Romanesque
- schools
- Space
- statistical
- structural
- transept

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A vaulted extension or projection, usually from a choir or chapel and generally circular or polygonal in shape.



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