CHANTRY CHAPEL.--A chapel connected with a monument or tomb in which masses were to be chanted. This was usually of small size and very rich. CHAPEL.--(1) A chamber attached to a church and opening out of it, or formed within it, and in which an altar was placed; (2) a small detached church. CHAPTER HOUSE.--The hall of assembly of the chapter (dean and canons) of a cathedral. [Illustration: FIG. _L_.--EARLY NORMAN CAPITAL.] [Illustration: FIG. _M_.--EARLY ENGLISH CAPITAL.] [Illustration: FIG. _N_.--LATER NORMAN CAPITAL.] [Illustration: FIG. _O_.--PERPENDICULAR CAPITAL.] [Illustration: FIG. _P_.--EARLY FRENCH CAPITAL.] CHÂTEAU.--The French name for a country mansion. CHEVRON.--A zig-zag ornament. CHEVET.--The French name for an apse when surrounded by chapels; see the plan of Westminster Abbey (Fig. 6). CHOIR.--The part of a church in which the services are celebrated; usually, but not always, the east end or chancel. In a Spanish church the choir is often at the crossing. CLERESTORY.--The upper story or row of windows lighting the nave of a Gothic church. CLOISTER.--A covered way round a quadrangle of a monastic building. CLUSTERED (SHAFTS).--Grouped so as to form a pier of some mass out of several small shafts. CORBEL.--A projecting stone (or timber) supporting, or seeming to support, a weight (Fig. _K_). [Illustration: FIG. _K_.--EARLY RENAISSANCE CORBEL.] CORBELLING.--A series of mouldings doing the same duty as a corbel; a row of corbels. CORBEL TABLE.--A row of corbels supporting an overhanging parapet or cornice. CORTILE (Italian).--The internal arcaded quadrangle of a palace, mansion, or public building. COLUMN.--A stone or marble post, divided usually into base, shaft, and capital; distinguished from a pier by the shaft being cylindrical or polygonal, and in one, or at most, in few pieces. CORNICE.--The projecting and crowning portion of an order (which see) or of a building, or of a stage or story of a building. COURSE.--A horizontal layer of stones in the masonry of a building. CROCKET.--A tuft of leaves arranged in a formal shape, used to decorate ornamental gables, the ribs of spires, &c. [Illustration: FIG. _Q_.--DECORATED CROCKET.] [Illustration: FIG. _R_.--PERPENDICULAR CROCKET.] CROSSING.--The intersection (which see) in a church or cathedral. CROSS VAULT.--A vault of which the arched surfaces intersect one another, forming a groin (which see). CRYPT.--The basement under a church or other building (almost invariably vaulted). CUSP.--The projecting point thrown out to form the leaf-shaped forms or foliations in the heads of Gothic windows, and in tracery and panels.