Glossary
- aisle
- altarpiece
- ambo
- ambulatory
- Anglican
- antitype
- Apocrypha
- apostle
- apse
- arcade
- archivolt
- aumbry
- bema
- boss
- buttress
- campanile
- catacomb
- cathedra
- chancel
- chantry
- chapter house
- choir
- ciborium
- clapboard
- clerestory
- cloister
- cosmati
- crossing
- crypt
- deisis
- disciple
- episcopal
- evangelist
- Faililee chapel
- fan vault
- flying buttress
- font
- gargoyle
- gisant
- hatchment
- High Altar
- host
- iconoclasm
- iconstasis
- lady chapel
- lancet
- lavatorium
- lectern
- lierne vault
- lintel
- matroneum
- mausoleum
- misericord
- naos
- narthex
- nave
- Orthodox
- Pantocrator
- Pantokrator
- paten
- pews
- piscina
- portico
- presbytery
- pulpit
- pulpitum
- quadripartite
- refectory
- reredos
- rood screen
- sacristy
- sedilia
- sgraffito
- spire
- steeple
- tessera
- tetragrammaton
- Theotokos
- titulus
- tower
- tracery
- transept
- triforium
- trumeau
- tympanum
- type
- vault
- vestry
- volute
- west front
Source Citation
Stemp, Richard. The Secret Language of Churches & Cathedrals: Decoding the Sacred Symbolism of Christianity’s Holy Buildings. London, Great Britain: Duncan Baird Publishers. 2010.