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chapter house, a building in which the chapter of the clergy meets. Its plan varies, the simplest being a rectangle. At Worcester, England, the Norman builders created a circular chapter house (c.1100), with vaulting springing from a central pillar. Subsequent examples, adopting this central support for their vaulted roofs but frequently having a polygonal plan, are among the most distinctive achievements of the English Gothic builders. Those at Salisbury, Wells, and Westminster Abbey (1250) are octagonal, while that at Lincoln is decagonal. At York, the octagonal room (c.1300) exhibits a departure in that it dispenses with the central column and is covered with a vaulted wooden roof. |
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| The tomb of Francesco Dandolo (1329-39) in the chapter house of the Fran furthers the ties between Doge and God. The luncheon will be held at The Chapter House and Preschool Day Care Center, 808 W. The first phase - the cloister, enclosed on two sides by ranges containing the Chapter House and the Refectory, was completed in April 1907 and, soon after the monks of Saint-Paul-de-Wisques had moved to Oosterhout from Belgium, Dom Bellot returned to the Isle of Wight, to make a start on the new Quarr Abbey. |
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