transeptal, a.
(trɑːnˈsɛptəl, træn-)
[f. prec. + -al1.]
Of, pertaining to, or of the nature of a transept. Hence tranˈseptally adv., in the manner of a transept.
| 1846 Ecclesiologist V. 152 A parclose..screening off the north transeptal chapel. 1856 Ibid. XVII. 88 A spacious narthex with the prescribed chapels..opening into it transeptally. 1884 Ch. Times XXII. 86 Exeter is noteworthy for its transeptal or ‘paddle-box’ towers. 1886 Willis & Clark Cambridge III. 261 The chapel is to the west of the hall, and has a transeptal antechapel. |