slype

American  

[slahyp] / slaɪp /

noun

Architecture.

1. a covered passage, especially one from the transept of a cathedral to the chapter house.

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slype British  

/ slaɪp /

noun

1. a covered passageway in a cathedral or church that connects the transept to the chapterhouse

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Etymology

Origin of slype

1860–65; origin uncertain; compare dialectal Dutch slijpe secret path

Example Sentences

Before entering the Cloister court we pass through the old slype, once a simple vaulted passage, but now open to the sky.

From The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See by Sweeting, W. D. (Walter Debenham)

Of the same date must be much of the strengthening masonry in the crypt, the Prior's lodging, the chapel, and the slype beneath it.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)

Adjoining S. transept is the vaulted slype, and the room over it may have been the scriptorium or library.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

Under this arcading in the transept is a doorway, built by Lord Grimthorpe, partly from fragments of the west doorway of the old slype, and partly from his own design.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

Five extremely fine Early Norman arches which were once part of the chapter-house still remain, and may be seen in a line with the end of the slype, beyond the south transept.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Sergeant, Philip Walsingham