Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having three apses; subdivided into three apses; characterized by a triple arrangement of the apse, as most Greek churches.
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It is a triapsidal cross church, without aisles, with an apsidal termination at the E. end of the chancel and at the N. and S. ends of the transept.
Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story
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Mont Majour near Arles is a triapsidal church, supposed to be the only one of its kind.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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(Also written ABSIDIALE), a small or secondary apse, one of the apses on either side of the main apse in a triapsidal church, or one of the apse-chapels when they project on the exterior of the church, particularly if the projection resembles an apse in shape.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize 1840-1916 1913
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This last feature, perhaps the most brilliant in conception and splendid in effect of the several parts of a Gothic church, may have been derived either from the triapsidal termination of the Carolingian basilican church, or from the polygonal domed structures of the same epoch.
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI 1840-1916 1913
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a slight eminence overhanging the sea stands Querqueville, with its older and its newer, its lesser and its greater, church, the two standing side by side, and with the outline of the greater -- the same triapsidal form marking both -- clearly suggested by the smaller.
Sketches of Travel in Normandy and Maine Edward Augustus Freeman 1857
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