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Its plan is as perfect as its simple but imposing architecture; the ecclesiastical appearance is heightened by the lancet windows between the heavy buttresses and the slight transeptal extensions that give the structure the form of a cross.

Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes

These transeptal towers are peculiar to this church and the other on which he spent his enthusiasm, Exeter

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

I, had raised the transeptal towers -- a feature that no other English cathedral possesses -- and since his time the Lady Chapel had been added, but the design of the Cathedral as a whole was evolved by Bishop Quivil.

Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote

All the Norman windows which had remained unaltered were now filled with tracery, not of particularly good design; the great west window and the others in the west wall were similarly treated; the conical tops to the transeptal corner turrets were altered into battlements; the screens in the transepts were made, and, probably, the groined wooden ceiling in the choir.

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

The church exhibits the rare feature of transeptal aisles.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

They are placed in the two transeptal chapels and form one of the chief attractions of the place.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 14: Simony-Tournon 1840-1916 1913

The final step by which the church reached its present plan was the addition of a transeptal chapel to either aisle, opposite the site which, more than three centuries before, had been chosen for the piers of the abandoned central tower.

The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church 1912

The nave has aisles with transeptal chapels, very regular and symmetrical in plan, but is continued beyond the opening of the transeptal projections by an aisleless bay, east of which comes the chancel arch.

The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church 1912

Variety of treatment of transeptal chapels 105 61.

The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church 1912

Very often, where special chantry chapels were built, they took the position of transeptal chapels.

The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church 1912