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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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