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  2. Choir (architecture) - Wikipedia

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    The place where the singers are based is sometimes called the ritual choir, as opposed to the architectural choir or constructional choir. [ 4 ] The back-choir or retroquire is a space behind the high altar in the choir of a church, in which there may be a small altar standing back to back with the other.

  3. Buxheim choir stalls - Wikipedia

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    The Buxheim choir stalls are high baroque choir stalls created by Ignaz Waibl between 1687 and 1691 in the monastery church of St. Maria in Buxheim in Upper Swabia. Following the dissolution of the charterhouse in the course of secularization , it came into the possession of the count in 1803.

  4. Retroquire - Wikipedia

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    In church architecture, a retroquire (also spelled retrochoir), or back-choir, [1] is the space behind the high altar in a church or cathedral, which sometimes separates it from the end chapel. It may contain seats for the church choir .

  5. Choir wall of Chartres Cathedral - Wikipedia

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    The choir wall of Chartres Cathedral (French - clôture de chœur or tour du chœur) is a piece of stone architecture and sculpture in Chartres Cathedral, over 6 metres tall and around 100 metres long. It was commissioned right at the start of the 16th century by Jehan de Beauce to keep the laity out of the liturgical choir.

  6. Buttrick White & Burtis - Wikipedia

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    Buttrick White & Burtis's work was eclectic. Writing in 1985 in New York Magazine, the architectural historian Carter Wiseman contrasted the firm's conservative renovation work at the traditional, oak-paneled Harvard Club of New York with their more avant-garde designs for the stores of the then-hip Tower Records chain, adding that the chain's downtown venue was "the most successful such ...

  7. William of Sens - Wikipedia

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    William of Sens or Guillaume de Sens (died 11 August 1180) was a 12th-century French master mason and architect, believed to have been born at Sens, France. [1] He is known for rebuilding the choir of Canterbury Cathedral between 1174 and 1177, counted as the first important example of the Early Gothic Style of architecture in England, finished ...

  8. Kliros - Wikipedia

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    Chanters singing on the kliros at the Church of St. George, Patriarchate of Constantinople. The kliros (Greek: κλῆρος klēros, plural κλῆροι klēroi; Slavonic: клиросъ, "kliros" or sometimes крилосъ, "krilos") is the section of an Eastern Orthodox, Armenian, or Eastern Catholic church dedicated to the choir.

  9. Decani - Wikipedia

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    Stalls assigned to Decanus (left) and Praecentor (right) at Lincoln Cathedrals's St Hugh's Choir . Decani (/ d ɪ ˈ k eɪ n aɪ /; Latin: 'of the dean') is the side of a church choir occupied by the Dean. [1] In English churches, this is typically the choir stalls on the south side of the chancel. The opposite side is known as Cantoris. [2]