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aisles altar apse arcade architect artist baptism Baroque Baroque churches basilica became belief builders carpenter carved centre chancel chapels Chartres CHARTRES CATHEDRAL choir screen Christ church buildings churches were built clerestory clergy columns communion table congregation construction cross crusades decorated designed developed dome east end Eastern Church emphasized England Eucharist Europe faith Flying buttress France gallery God's Gothic architecture Gothic cathedral Gothic Perpendicular Groin vault half shafts interior Jerusalem Jesus liturgy masons meeting-place Middle Ages monasteries monks nave Neo-classicism nineteenth century ornament painted period pews piers Pieter Saenredam pilgrim routes pilgrimage pulpit Reformation relics religious Renaissance revival ribs Rococo Roman Romanesque churches Rome roof saints sculpture seating secular shaft shape sometimes Spain spire stained glass stave churches stone Strasbourg cathedral stress structural symbol temple timber tion tower transept triforium twelfth century usually vault vertical west front wooden worship