crossing
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- church building
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- Crossings (architecture)
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- Crossings (architecture)
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- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
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Cathedral floor plan (crossing is shaded)
A crossing, in ecclesiastical architecture, is the junction of the four arms of a cruciform (cross-shaped) church.
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