Sentence examples for narthex from inspiring English sources

This narthex was commonly fronted by a colonnade and, in many cases, opened onto a court surrounded by either colonnades or arcades.

The facade and narthex of the church are 1743 Rococo, the interior an earlier Baroque with a 12th-century Cosmatesque pavement, some antique columns, a few Renaissance details, and, somewhere within it all, part of a palace built about 180 211.

The basilica is entered through a two-storied narthex surmounted by a square belfry, with pillars crowned by Romanesque, Corinthian, and symbolically carved capitals.

In the narthex at Vézelay there was one groin vault that had ribs, and buttresses resembling flying buttresses were concealed under roofs of the galleries.

At the entrance end a narthex, or vestibule, extended the entire width of the nave and aisles.

It has either a cloistered court (atrium) or anteroom (narthex) or both at the west end and a semicircular projection (apse) at the east.

When the church was made a mosque, it acquired the narthex (an enclosed passage between the main entrance and the nave), portico, and minarets.

The church had a tripartite narthex no longer in existence.

Every class, we met in the narthex at twelve-thirty, passed out pens and notebooks, and gave optional topics for that session's writing.

A few hours later, the church is holding evening services in the narthex when someone sticks his head in the door and says, "Your church is on fire".

"Yes, we meet every Wednesday at twelve-thirty in the narthex, that little room in the front of the church.