bay (architecture)
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Image:Lyme Park.jpg in Cheshire, England. The main facade is divided by pilasters into fifteen bays, equalling the number of windows.]]
File:LemeryChurchljf4565 35.JPG of Lemery, Batangas, Philippines, the spaces between each set of columns and roof trusses are bays.]]
Image:Cathedrale Saint Jean Lyon ceiling over nave.jpg, in Lyon Cathedral, France]]
In architecture, a bay is the space between architectural elements, or a recess or compartment. The term bay comes from Old French baie, meaning an opening or hole."Bay" Online Etymology Dictionary. http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?allowed_in_frame=0&search=bay&searchmode=none accessed 3/10/2014
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Examples
- The spaces between posts, columns, or buttresses in the length of a building, the division in the widths being called aisles. This meaning also applies to overhead vaults (between ribs), in a building using a vaulted structural system. For example, the Gothic architecture period's Chartres Cathedral has a nave (main interior space) that is "seven bays long." Similarly in timber framing a bay is the space between posts in the transverse direction of the building and aisles run longitudinally."Bay", n.3. def. 1-6 and "Bay", n.5 def 2. Oxford English Dictionary Second Edition on CD-ROM (v. 4.0) © Oxford University Press 2009
- If there are no columns or other divisions but there are regularly-spaced windows, each window in a wall is counted as a bay. For example, Mulberry Fields, a Georgian style building in Maryland, United States, is described as "5 bay by 2 bay," meaning "5 windows at the front and 2 windows at the sides".
- A recess in a wall, such as a bay window.
- A division of space such as an animal stall, sick bay, or bay platform.
- The space between joists or rafters, a joist bay or rafter bay.
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See also
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