Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevets
Literary usage of Chevets
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Mediaeval Church Vaulting by Clarence Ward (1915)
"... of them earlier than the earliest of the true chevets, would it not seem as
if the builders were bent upon using quadripartite vaulting of some form, ..."
2. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1885)
"I might spend the whole evening in explaining to you the various developments of
plan which the necessities of the apse and its chevets gave rise to. ..."
3. Medieval Art: From the Peace of the Church to the Eve of the Renaissance by William Richard Lethaby (1904)
"The exteriors of the huge ap- sidal chevets * of Beauvais, Bourges, and Le Mans
are just as marvellous as the interiors, the great sweeping walls of ..."
4. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1909)
"In plan, they are all aisled, have thoroughly developed eastern chevets— that of
... The chevets are remarkably well arranged, and their effect outside ..."
5. Encyclopaedia Britannica, a Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature and edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... to whom the chevets of Amiens, Beauvais and Reims were probably well known.
(RPS) APSE and APSIDES, in mechanics, either of the two points of an orbit ..."
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