Between the pillars that separate the nave from the side aisles there are ancient tombs, most of which have recumbent statues on them.

The pillars dividing the nave from the side-aisles are enormous composite masses, each one consisting of six Corinthian columns, stuck around and against a central shaft.

The pillars supporting the nave are equally plain; the walls and ceiling are almost entirely devoid of ornament: and primitive white-wash forms the most prominent colouring material.

For this reason, then, the monks of Rochester were happily never able to rebuild their nave, which remains a Norman work of the twelfth century.

The architects of the Romanesque, who were probably churchmen, retained the nave of the basilica, but made it narrower, and used but two rows of columns.

The interior is a mixture of Gothic and Roman, glaring with whitewash, and broken, like that of Seville, by a wooden choir and two grand organs, blocking up the nave.

But during the pontificate of Paul V., Carlo Maderno resumed the form of the Latin cross, and completed the nave and vestibule, as they now stand, upon this altered plan (1614).

y confunden con las tinieblas de las naves los rayos de colores de las ojivas; donde lucha y se

The church has some unusual features, for a single roof covers nave, aisles, and chancel; and there is no chancel arch.

" Leonard took no notice of the remark, but silently crossing the nave of this beautiful subterranean church (part of which still exists), traversed its northern aisle.

Á la luz del farolillo, cuya dudosa claridad se perdía entre las espesas sombras de las naves y dibujaba con gigantescas proporciones sobre el muro la fantástica sombra del sargento aposentador que iba precediéndole, recorrió la iglesia de arriba abajo y escudriñó una por una todas sus desiertas capillas, hasta que una vez hecho cargo del local, mandó echar pie á tierra á su gente, y hombres

He went to the broken rudder, and governed the nave so skilfully, that it presently drew to land.

It follows the local type having a nave with north and south aisles and a chancel with north and south chapels, vestry, south porch and western tower.

All at once, a blue light illumined the nave, and partially revealed the lofty pillars by which it was surrounded.

Perhaps its most beautiful features are the great square tower, the lofty and imposing nave, and the exquisite rose window in the south wall of the transept, which is said to be the finest in Belgium.

The internal beauty is from the pillars supporting the roof, and the tower which intersects the nave, choir, and transepts.

Few, however, of the Roman families go there to-day;they perform their religious services in their private chapel or in some minor church; for the crowd of forestieri spoils St. Peter's for prayer.[A] At the elevation of the Host, the guards, who line the nave, drop to their knees, their side-arms ringing on the pavement,the vast crowd bends,and a swell of trumpets sounds through the dome.

Habi^a llegado una nave.

The Cathedral, built entirely of a milky white stone from the quarries close to Toledo, rose in one single elevation from the base of the pillars to the vaulting, with no triforium to cut its arcades and to weaken and load the naves with superimposed arches.

One will meet few grander naves anywhere than this Gothic nave in Canterbury, formed of white stone and wonderfully symmetrical in all its outlines.

The Chapel of the Holy Countenance (midway up the nave), inclosed by a gilded net-work, is a dazzling mountain of light flung from a thousand golden sconces.

At the very moment of our entering, the procession was passing down the nave on its way round the outside of the church to look for the Body of Our Lord.

El nuevo organista, después de atravesar por en medio de los fieles que ocupaban las naves para ir á besar el anillo del prelado, había subido á la tribuna, donde tocaba unos tras otros los registros del órgano; con una gravedad tan afectada como ridícula.

As the music rolls down the pillared nave out into the crowded piazza, where it dies away in harmonious murmurs, an iron cresset, suspended from the vaulted ceiling of the nave, filled with a bundle of flax, is fired.

The vespers had already begun, and the monks were singing the service in the choir, when two boys rushed up the nave, announcing, more by their terrified gestures than by their words, that the soldiers were bursting into the palace and monastery.