- 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...
- 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)...
-
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...
-
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...
- of apoplexy. His
gravestone is in the
floor of the
south aisle of the
retrochoir at
Winchester Cathedral.
Winchester Cathedral Leigh Rayment's Peerage...
-
Norwich Cathedral, cloister,
choir clerestory, vaults,
spire York Minster,
retrochoir, choir,
towers Durham Cathedral,
central tower Tattershall,
Castle tower...
- Burgos.
There he
executed the
technically precise reliefs of the main
retrochoir of the cathedral,
which led to
further contracts and a
lifelong career...
-
crossing (by
William Smyth)
Peterborough Cathedral, Cambridgeshire,
retrochoir Red
Mount Chapel, King's Lynn
Sherborne Abbey, Dorset,
quire c. 1430,...
- Cathedral, and that of
Exeter Cathedral (begun
before 1280). The
striking retrochoir of
Wells Cathedral (begun
before 1280), the
choir of
Saint Augustine at...
