Well I guess ours can't be a narthex, every mention I've seen of one says
it's at the west end of the church, and our entrance is on the east side.
So there!  Ruth



At 2:52 PM -0400 10/24/08, [log in to unmask] wrote:

This IS very interesting...

G.H. Cook, The English Cathedral:      
    No mention of narthex or vestibule
    Gallilee - The last place in the church visited by the Sunday procession

David Watkin, English Architecture:     
    Narthex - A large porch at the West end of a church
    Gallilee - A large enclosed porch at the west end of a church

Cecil Hewitt, Church Carpentry:
    No mention in text, glossary or index of either term

John Norwich, The Architecture of Southern England:
    Narthex - see Gallilee
    Galilee - a chapel or vestibule usually at the west end of a church;
sometimes called a narthex.

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    E. Scrooge Twybil
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Ruth Barton
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Dummerston, VT

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