With characteristic orneriness, Mr. Carpenter seemed happier with his onstage loudspeakers than with resounding naves.
Screens could be rebuilt and naves and aisles put to new uses.
The interiors were hollowed out into naves and given vaulted ceilings.
In Boullée's grand design, the worshippers are little pinpricks dwarfed by thousands of columns and vast vaulted naves.
An oval building with the naves sculpted into the outer wall, it enlarges on concepts advanced by Michelangelo.
There are 57 of these images in the show, including many pictures of the aisles, naves, flying buttresses and rooftops of the church itself.
Typically, they have, or have had, long, wooden-roofed naves with vaulted aisles and wooden-roofed galleries, embellished, stage by stage, with bold, rich interior arcading.
The banking room, a triumph of Romanesque Revival design with the naves and aisles of a church, is a tasteful riot of wrought metal, stone and tile.
The scaffolding for the project resembled, in the words of one historian, "the naves of half a dozen cathedrals laid end to end".
Among the more ambitious naves originally roofed in wood but now closed with Gothic vaults are those of the cathedrals at Winchester (1079), Gloucester (1089), and Norwich (1096).
The roofed oratory of the mosque is divided by pillars into five long aisles or naves originally ornamented with panels of carved wood.
