narthex's Usage Examples:

The top of the narthex forms a wide gallery, communicating with the interior at the triforium level.

The western entrance was approached by an ante-church, or narthex (B), itself an aisled church of no mean dimensions, flanked by two towers, rising from a stately flight of steps bearing a large stone cross.

The narthex and baptistery belong to an earlier period.

In the centre of this court stands the catholicon or conventual church, a square building with an apse of the cruciform domical Byzantine type, approached by a domed narthex.

It consists of a vast nave of eleven bays, entered by a narthex, with a transept and short apsidal choir.

This type comprised nave and aisles, ending at one end in an apse and two chambers resembling rudimentary transepts, and at the other end in a porch (narthex).

This last was rebuilt and enlarged in 1843-1844, but preserves the three bays of the Saxon church, with its western narthex, on which was superimposed the Norman tower, which presents its rich front to the street.

The dome and narthex are modern additions.

The addition of a narthex before the main front and a vestibule on the northern side brings the whole western arm of the cross to a square on plan.