Word: transepts
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...Such superlatives are characteristic of St. John's, which when finished will be the world's second biggest church (bigger: St. Peter's in the Vatican), and the biggest of Gothic design. Still to come (see cuts): the upper half of two west towers, one more transept, and part of another, a great (402 ft.) central tower...
...Gothic north tower, because the U.S. troops were careful to attack only with small arms. The plainer Romanesque south tower likewise showed only a little bullet chipping. Priests who ushered an A.P. correspondent around pointed out the slight damage to the interior-a few windows broken in the south transept, a few supports shattered behind the high altar. The glorious blue glass of Chartres was nowhere to be seen. But, said a priest: "At the start of the war we removed all the colored glass and stored it in the cellar...
...Paul's Cathedral, twice hit-once in the choir, once in the north transept. One photograph shows the yawning hole in the transept floor, a huge puncture made not by the bomb itself but by the weight of wreckage which fell after...
...Church of St. Stephen's, Walbrook, whose "columns, arches, spandrils and dome follow each other with the logic of a Euclidian theorem." Wren's great transept is buried in wreckage, and there is a jagged rip in the resetted dome...
...Transept, which separates the Great Hall and the Sanders Theatre, holds the marble memorial plaques and two large windows, stained to commemorate various events in our history. In the basement is the Stevens Laboratory, which is doing secret work in acoustics...