choir wall

choir wall

A wall between piers and under an arcade screening the choir from the aisles.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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In the last decades of the Quattrocento, however, extensive additions were made to the inner choir walls, which may well explain the greater height recorded in Polidoro's description.
Approaching the Altar: Donatello's Sculpture in the Santo
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