An apsidole or absidiale is a small or secondary

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, one of the apses on either side of the main apse in a triapsidal church, or one of the apse-chapels when they project on the exterior of the church, particularly if the projection resembles an apse in shape. Francis Bond says that the

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plan of eastern limb, which the Norman builders brought over to England at the

Conquest Conquest is the act of military subjugation of an enemy by force of arms. Military history provides many examples of conquest: the Roman conquest of Britain, the Mauryan conquest of Afghanistan and of vast areas of the Indian subcontinent, t ...

, contained a central apse flanked by apsidioles.

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