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Definition of Retrochoir

Retrochoir
Retrochoir Re"tro*choir, n. [Pref. retro- + choir.] (Eccl. Arch.) Any extension of a church behind the high altar, as a chapel; also, in an apsidal church, all the space beyond the line of the back or eastern face of the altar.

Meaning of Retrochoir from wikipedia

- and very wide nave in the Perpendicular Gothic style, an Early English retrochoir, and Norman transepts and tower. With an overall length of 558 feet (170 m)...
- In church architecture, a retroquire (also spelled retrochoir), or back-choir, is the space behind the high altar in a church or cathedral, which sometimes...
- Shrewsbury followed, continuing the eastward extension of the choir and retrochoir beyond. He oversaw the building of Vicars' Close and the Vicars' Hall...
- tower, transepts, and a five-bay choir. Beyond the choir stood a lower retrochoir or Lady chapel, the form of which can also be interpreted as group of...
- installed on a 'feretory platform' above and behind the high altar. The retrochoir was built in the early 13th century to accommodate the huge numbers of...
- of apoplexy. His gravestone is in the floor of the south aisle of the retrochoir at Winchester Cathedral. Winchester Cathedral Leigh Rayment's Peerage...
- Cathedral, and that of Exeter Cathedral (begun before 1280). The striking retrochoir of Wells Cathedral (begun before 1280), the choir of Saint Augustine at...
- Norwich Cathedral, cloister, choir clerestory, vaults, spire York Minster, retrochoir, choir, towers Durham Cathedral, central tower Tattershall, Castle tower...
- commissioned him 7 May 1517 to construct the choir stalls and the marble retrochoir of the Cathedral of Barcelona. A few months later, he and Juan Petit Monet...
- Jacobins, Toulouse – palm tree vault (1275–1292) Peterborough Cathedral, retrochoir – intersecting fan vaults "Rococo Gothic" vaults of Vladislav Hall of...