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Chevet
The whole eastern end of a French church: apse, ambulatory and radiating chapels, seen as one composition.
See also: Ambulatory
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 Romanesque and Gothic.
A feature of Gothic architecture.
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