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The placement of the choir within a large Latin cross church The choir of Bristol Cathedral, with the nave seen through the chancel screen, so looking west. A choir, also sometimes called quire, [1] is the area of a church or cathedral that provides seating for the clergy and church choir.
One of Australia's largest churches and the third tallest after St Patrick's Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. 75 metres (246 ft) long and has a ceiling height of 24 metres (79 ft). The main spire is 87 metres (285 ft) high. [citation needed] Basilica of St. John the Baptist: 2,135 [citation needed] 64,040 [100] 1839–1855 St. John's Canada
Typical early Christian Byzantine apse with a hemispherical semi-dome in the Basilica of Sant'Apollinare in Classe Typical floor plan of a cathedral, with the apse shaded. In architecture, an apse (pl.: apses; from Latin absis, 'arch, vault'; from Ancient Greek ἀψίς, apsis, 'arch'; sometimes written apsis; pl.: apsides) is a semicircular recess covered with a hemispherical vault or semi ...
15th-century rood screen from the chapel of St Fiacre at Le Faouet Morbihan, France, including the two thieves on either side of Christ Usual location of a rood screen. The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture.
Amiens Cathedral floorplan: massive piers support the west end towers; transepts are abbreviated; seven radiating chapels form the chevet reached from the ambulatory. In Western ecclesiastical architecture, a cathedral diagram is a floor plan showing the sections of walls and piers, giving an idea of the profiles of their columns and ribbing.
Municipality Cathedral Image Location & References Coral Gables (Miami area) St. George Cathedral (Antiochian Orthodox) 25°44′43″N 80°15′41″W / 25.745164°N 80.261331°W / 25.745164; -80.261331 (St. George Cathedral, Coral Gables, Florida) Jacksonville St. John's Cathedral (Episcopal) 30°19′44″N 81°39′12″W / 30.328772°N 81.653423°W / 30.328772 ...
Largest church in Austria by area, but two metres shorter than St. Stephen's Cathedral, Vienna since no building in Austria-Hungary was allowed to be higher than St. Stephen's Cathedral (also the reason why there are no taller churches in Budapest and Prague) 11: St. Peter's Church: 132.2 m (436 ft) 1878: Hamburg Germany: Lutheran
Today the cathedral consists of nine individual chapels. [83] The largest, central one, the Church of the Intercession, is 46 metres (151 ft) tall internally but has a floor area of only 64 square metres (690 sq ft). [62] Nevertheless, it is wider and airier than the church in Kolomenskoye with its exceptionally thick walls. [84]