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Definition of Chevet
1. n. The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
Definition of Chevet
1. the apse and chapel of a church [n -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevet
Literary usage of Chevet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Illustrated Handbook of Architecture: Being a Concise and Popular by James Fergusson (1855)
"This is most distinctly observable in the exterior of the apse of the chevet,
which it is rare to find unaltered; here it is surrounded by a series of ..."
2. Medieval Art: From the Peace of the Church to the Eve of the Renaissance by William Richard Lethaby (1904)
"... had two towers to each, one at the end of each aisle, as at Laon, Chartres, &c.
FIG. 69. Plan of east transept and chevet of the church of St. Quentin. ..."
3. An Englishman in Paris: (notes and Recollections). by Albert Dresden Vandam (1892)
"... character—His personal affection for Louis-Napoleon—Madame de Persigny—Her
parsimony—Her cooking of the household accounts—chevet and Madame de ..."
4. A History of Architecture by Fiske Kimball, George Harold Edgell (1918)
"149—PLANS OF THE EAST ENDS OF FIVE GOTHIC CHURCHES, ILLUSTRATING THE DEVELOPMENT
OF THE chevet of structural needs and the recognition of the esthetic value ..."
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