Apse

The mosaics of the Apse displayed a Christ with face of pitiless intellect, or a pinched, flat-breasted virgin holding a child like a wooden doll.

Later Articles and Reviews W.B. Yeats 2000

The work in the = Apse = is difficult to describe.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock

Rector of this Church, this Apse was rebuilt by his nephew,

Bell's Cathedrals: The Priory Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Great, Smithfield A Short History of the Foundation and a Description of the Fabric and also of the Church of St. Bartholomew-the-Less George Worley

Golden Sunflowers are introduced at Rheims into the stained glass of an Apse window in the church of St. Remi, with the Virgin and

Herbal Simples Approved for Modern Uses of Cure William Thomas Fernie

[Illustration: Apse and New Building, from the South-East.]

The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting

_Apse_ -- the semicircular space at the end of a building.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

= The East End. = -- The Apse was intended for the reception of the altar.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock

[Illustration: Apse and Canopied Reredos.] = The Canopied Reredos = or = Baldachino = was given by the eight surviving children of Dean Saunders as a memorial of their parents.

The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting

Apse: An extremity of the major axis of the orbit of a body; a body is at its greatest and least distances from the body about which it revolves, when at one or other apse.

Kepler Bryant, Walter W 1920

Apse chapels are often found in the cathedrals of the Benedictine foundations, and occasionally in those of the Cluniac reform.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913