Barlong (rectangular)

Rectangular, with an area that is wider than it is long.
The clocher (bell tower) of the Saint-Symphorien in Vérizet (Viré) clearly has a barlong plan.

Saint-Symphorien - Vérizet

Clunisien (Cluniac)

Reference to churches and buildings built in commission and under the influence of the Cluniac monastic order.
The Cluniac churches are typified by their richness of ornamentation.

Site Clunisien Saint-Hippolyte (Bonnay)

Coupe (section)

Term used on technical drawings.
Coupe (section or cross section) is used contrary to élévation (elevation).
A coup emphasises on what is shown when one cuts through an object or a building.
A plan could be defined as a section in the horizontal plane; sections are normally cross or longitudinal sections.
In the picture a longitudinal section of the Saint-Bonnet in Saint-Bonnet-de-Cray.

Saint-Bonnet - Saint-Bonnet-de-Cray

Coupole (cupola)

A voûte (vault) having the shape of half a sphere.
A coupole can have a square, circular, elliptical or octagonal ground surface.
The croisée (crosssing) or the chœur (choir) are often covered with a coupole.
A coupole is often supported from trompes (squinches) or pendentifs (pendentives).
This cupola on trompes is located in the Saint-Martin in Chapaize.

Saint-Martin - Chapaize

Courtine (curtain wall)

Courtine is a term used in the architecture of fortifications, and denotes a wall connecting two towers.
In the picture the curtain wall of the castle of Berzé-la-Ville.
The word courtine is also used for churches; the high wall crowning the façade (facade) of the Saint-Philibert in Tournus is one.
Behind this wall one finds the chapelle (chapel) Saint-Michel.
The clocher (bell tower) on the left (in pinkish stone) was extended in the 12th century; its original shape was identical to that of the tower on the right.
The courtine connects both towers.
The crenellated top is an addition from the 19th century.

Château - Berzé-le-Châtel

Saint-Philibert - Tournus

Cruciforme (cross shaped)

Slightly bigger churches often have a plan resembling a Latin cross (Wikipedia).

Cruciforme - Wikipedia

Dôme (dome)

A dôme is an architectural element, consisting of half a sphere.
The concept of half a sphere should not be taken too literary; think of the onion shaped domes on Russian-orthodox churches.
A dome is normally crowning a tower or a building.
This is the clocher (bell tower) of the Sainte-Madeleine in Charnay-lès-Mâcon.

Sainte-Madeleine - Charnay-lès-Mâcon

Elévation (elevation)

Term used among others on technical drawings. An élévation "looks" at something, as opposed to a coupe (section or cross section) which concentrates on what one sees when one cuts through an object or a building. A plan could be defined as a section in the horizontal plane.
In the picture two elevations of Romanesque houses in Cluny; the buildings 23-25 Rue de la République and 1-3 Rue de la Chanaise.
A definition closer to roman (Romanesque) architecture is that of the élévation of a travée (bay) in the nef (nave) of a church, or the élévation of a travée at the outside of a church.
On the second picture an élévation of a travée inside the Saint-Lazare in Autun.

Élévation

Saint-Lazare - Autun

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Encorbellement (extension ©)

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Architectural element that protrudes from a building, like a bay window.
In the picture a (rather strangely shaped) extension of a chapelle (chapel) belonging to the doyenné (deanery) of Bezornay (Saint-Vincent-des-Prés).

Doyenné de Bezornay (Saint-Vincent-des-Prés)

Entablement (entablature)

Protruding part at the top of a wall carrying the wooden roof structure.
By analogy with classical antiquity the entablement consists of :

D : architrave (architrave)
E : frise (frieze)
H : corniche (cornice)

Entablement - Wikipedia

Façade (facade)

In the context of this lexicon this is the west facade of a church.
The facades of the bras du transept (transept arms) however are also referred to as façades.
In the picture the roman (Romanesque) façade of the Sainte-Marie-Madeleine in Aigueperse (69).

Sainte-Marie-Madeleine - Aigueperse

Fenestrella (fenestrella ©)

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A window situated between the crypte (crypt) and the chœur (choir).
The window is located in the floor of the choir and lights the underlying crypt.
It is an Italian word for "small window".
Something similar can be found in the crypt of the church of Anzy-le-Duc; the window opening is located in the west wall of the crypt and opens onto the choir.

Anzy-le-Duc

Flèche (spire)

The top part of a tower or clocher (bell tower), mostly pointed and with a conical or polygonal shape.
The picture shows the spire of the Saint-Marcel in Cluny.

Saint-Marcel - Cluny

Gâble (wimperg)

Sharply pointed triangular part of a facade, adorning windows, door openings or niches.
Wimpergs were abundantly used in gothique (Gothic) architecture above archivoltes (archivolts).
In the picture one of the wimpergs used on the façade (facade) of the Gothic cathédrale (cathedral) of Reims.

Notre-Dame - Reims

Géminé (paired, twinned)

Objects like baies (wall openings), arcades, colonnes (columns), etc. grouped in pairs maintaining their single appearance.
Baies géminées (twin openings) are usually separated from each other by a column, in this case even by twin columns.
These paired or twin window openings are adorning the clocher (bell tower) of the Notre-Dame in Chazelle (Cormatin).

Notre-Dame - Chazelle (Cormatin)

Hémicycle (hemicycle)

A hémicycle is a building or part of a building with a semicircular plan, such as an amphitheatre or an abside (apse).
The picture shows the chapelle Saint-Martin in Saint-Martin-la-Patrouille with an (almost) complete semicircular plan.
The chapelle (chapel) is actually not much more than just an apse.

Chapelle Saint-Martin - Saint-Martin-la-Patrouille

Massif barlong (rectangular tower ©)

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A rectangular tower, built above the croisée (crossing) in such a way that the longest side is perpendicular to the axes of the nef (nave).
The picture shows the massif barlong of the Saint-Cyr-et-Sainte-Julitte in Bissy-la-Mâconnaise.

Saint-Cyr et Sainte-Julitte - Bissy-la-Mâconnaise

Octogonal (octagonal)

Although not as numerous as the square variant, there are quite a few octagonal clochers (bell towers) in Burgundy.
The picture shows the only remaining octagonal bell tower of the abbatiale (abbey church) of Cluny.

Clocher de l'abbaye - Cluny

Orientation (orientation)

Orientation means that the axis of the church, from the western entrance to the eastern chœur (choir) is facing the astronomical east (towards the orient).
The abside (apse) is the extreme eastern part of the church.

Orientation - internet

Plan (plan)

A horizontal section of a building, usually made at 1 m above floor level.
The picture shows a combined plan; on the left hand side of the centreline the plan is that of the narthex of the Saint-Philibert in Tournus, on the right hand side it is that of the chapelle (chapel) Saint-Michel, which is located above the narthex.

Saint-Philibert - Tournus