Glossary · R
Radiating chapels
Also called radiating chapel
Chapels opening off an ambulatory and set radially around the apse.
See also: Ambulatory, 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 Romanesque and Gothic.
A feature of Romanesque, Gothic architecture.
Nearby in the glossary
Quadripartite vault · Quincunx · Quinto acuto · Quoin · Rafter · Ratha · Redented · Regula