aisleless
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a word derived from
aisle.
aislenouna walkway between or along blocks or rows of seats in a theater, classroom, airplane, etc..
Example Sentences
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To this fine twelfth century aisleless church a north aisle was added in the fifteenth century.
From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson
At Harringworth in Northamptonshire there had been an aisleless church, to which a tower had been added at the end of the twelfth, and aisles early in the thirteenth century.
From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson
Chancels are sometimes apsidal, but by far the most prevalent type of plan is the aisleless oblong nave and square-ended chancel, with or without a western tower.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 4 "Aram, Eugene" to "Arcueil" by Various
The eastern bay overlapped the western part of the aisleless chancel, its western buttress being in a line with the division between chancel and nave.
From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton) Thompson
Its nave and aisles all come under one canopy vault, and its aisleless choir is squared off abruptly with an enormous carved and painted altar-piece of no great excellence.
From The Cathedrals and Churches of the Rhine by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield