Apse
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In architecture, an apse is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi-dome, also known as an exedra. In Byzantine, Romanesque, and Gothic Christian church architecture, the term
Typical early Christian Byzantine apse with a hemispherical semi-dome in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare, Classe, Italy
Triple apse of Basilica di Santa Giulia, northern Italy
East end of the abbey church of Saint-Ouen, showing the chevet, Rouen, Seine-Maritime, France
A chevet apse vault, Toulouse, France
Apse chapel
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An apse chapel, apsidal chapel, or chevet is a chapel in traditional Christian church architecture, which radiates tangentially from one of the bays or divisions of the apse. It is reached generally b
Apse chapel of the Cathedral of Funchal, Funchal, Madeira Island, Portugal.
