deambulatory

Definitions

noun A covered place to walk in; specifically, the aisles of a church, or, more properly, an aisle carried around the apse and surrounding the choir on three sides; a cloister or the like.
Strolling.

noun A covered place in which to walk; an ambulatory.
adjective obsolete Going about from place to place; wandering; of or pertaining to a deambulatory.

Latin deambulatorium.

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The plan consists of a nave, with aisles and lateral chapels, transept and choir, with a deambulatory at a slightly lower level.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 1 "Austria, Lower" to "Bacon" Various
This vast edifice rested on a foundation with a projection of ten cubits forming a deambulatory (18), which was reached by a stairway of twelve or fourteen steps.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913
It was the earliest important building in which the pointed arch (croisée d'ogive) was used in the chapels of the deambulatory, thus inaugurating this wonderful invention of the

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
Of Suger's building the western façade, the deambulatory, the chapels of the apse, and the crypt were retained, the remainder being rebuilt.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
Fourteen columns of colored marble sustain a domed ceiling of gilded cedar, with an exterior deambulatory under a tunnel-vaulting also roofed with cedar.

In Morocco Edith Wharton 1899
Beneath the church of Montmajour is a most extraordinary crypt, almost as big as the edifice above it and making a complete subterranean temple, surrounded with a circular gallery, or deambulatory, which expands at intervals into five square chapels.

A Little Tour of France Henry James 1879