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Ambulatory
An aisle continued around the apse, allowing circulation behind the high altar.
See also: Radiating chapels, Chevet
Rules that use the word
The chevet: ambulatory and radiating chapels. End the choir in a semicircle of piers; wrap an aisle (the ambulatory) around it, and open a ring of chapels off the ambulatory, each with its own altar and windows, so that the east end steps down in tiers of roofs and buttresses.
Where it appears in the book
In the chapters Vaults, Byzantium and the Early Church, Romanesque and Gothic.
A feature of Romanesque, Gothic architecture.
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