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What is the Part of cathedral in front of altar?
Choir or transept.
What is the space called where the nave and the transept intersect?
the Crossing
What is the name of covered passage between transept and chapterhouse?
Slype
What are either of the two wings of a cruciform church at right angels to the nave?
Transept The ground plan of many churches forms the shape of a cross. The two 'arms' of the cross are the transepts.
What is the Slype passage way?
The Slype is a covered passage, especially one from the transept of a cathedral to the chapter house. It is famous that a Slype is a covered passageway in a cathedral or church that connects the transept to the chapterhouse.
What is a transept?
The transverse arm, north or south, of a cross-shaped church.
Covered passage transept to chapterhouse?
Slype - found in Chambers Dictionary
What is it called that crosses the nave in a church?
This is called the 'transept' and its purpose is to provide separation between the Sanctuary and the Nave. Sometimes the transept will include an area for the choir (although a loft is more common) and/or statuary, or side altars.
What is the South transept of Westminster Abbey where literary figures are buried?
Poets corner
What is an altar actually called?
An altar is actually called "the altar", although if there are many altars in a Church, they may be called by a specific name, like the main altar, the high altar, the side altar, the Blessed Virgin Mary altar, the altar of repose, the Blessed Sacrament altar, the St. Joseph altar, etc.
What is a church wing called?
If you mean the side arms of a church, it is called "the transept". Each of the two may contain a chapel.
Either of the two wings of a cruciform church at right angles of the nave?
Sunday Express: transept
