Französisch: avant-corpsEnglisch translation: "West work" or "West-work" (in medieval architecture) 
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Tech/Engineering - Architektur / church architecture | | Französisch Begriff oder Satz: avant-corps | | The term features in a text about the 18th-century renovation of a medieval abbey. It describes the building's "sobre style classique avec arcades en plein cintre et avant-corps striés de bossages plats". The GDT gives forepart or forebuilding, but other sources suggest these are more typically used of castle architecture. |
| | | "west work" or "west-work" | Erklärung:
It is not quite clear precisely what is meant --a picture would help-- but the technical term for this part of the structure is "west-work", a direct translation from the German "westwerk".
From the decoration, it sounds like we are dealing with an Ottonian or Romanesque building and massive "west works" were common on the larger ones in this period.
The west-work is more than just a facade, consisting of one or more bays, usually between towers, almost always with a chapel on the second story, the whole forming a "massif occidentale".
Here's an 11th c. Norman example, ruined to show us a "cut away" view:
http://www.mondes-normands.caen.fr/angleterre/cultures/GB_FR...
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Another Norman example:
http://www.mondes-normands.caen.fr/angleterre/cultures/GB_FR...
The wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwork
The origin of these structures seems to go back to the Carolingian period and there would typically be an upstairs chapel which overlooked the nave, presumably for the use of the Emperor or some other high Muckety-Muck. The Ottonians, as heirs to the Carolingians, took that ball and ran with it, constructing the most impressive buildings of the 10th and 11th centuries.
Flanking towers were a common --but not universal-- element:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hildesheim_Cathedral...
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The variations are endless:
http://www.world66.com/europe/germany/lowersaxony/hildesheim...
(That's the West-work on the left, the choir and apse on the right.)
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| portical /porch
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Oxford-Duden pictorial dictionary shows the 'avant-corps' of a church and calls this 'projection' or 'projecting part of the building' so this could be described as the forepart but I would call it the porch or portical as they are often covered and have pillars standing on them
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| "west work" or "west-work"
Erklärung:
It is not quite clear precisely what is meant --a picture would help-- but the technical term for this part of the structure is "west-work", a direct translation from the German "westwerk".
From the decoration, it sounds like we are dealing with an Ottonian or Romanesque building and massive "west works" were common on the larger ones in this period.
The west-work is more than just a facade, consisting of one or more bays, usually between towers, almost always with a chapel on the second story, the whole forming a "massif occidentale".
Here's an 11th c. Norman example, ruined to show us a "cut away" view:
http://www.mondes-normands.caen.fr/angleterre/cultures/GB_FR...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-20 13:57:09 GMT)
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Another Norman example:
http://www.mondes-normands.caen.fr/angleterre/cultures/GB_FR...
The wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westwork
The origin of these structures seems to go back to the Carolingian period and there would typically be an upstairs chapel which overlooked the nave, presumably for the use of the Emperor or some other high Muckety-Muck. The Ottonians, as heirs to the Carolingians, took that ball and ran with it, constructing the most impressive buildings of the 10th and 11th centuries.
Flanking towers were a common --but not universal-- element:
http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Image:Hildesheim_Cathedral...
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Note added at 2 hrs (2007-02-20 14:00:28 GMT)
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The variations are endless:
http://www.world66.com/europe/germany/lowersaxony/hildesheim...
(That's the West-work on the left, the choir and apse on the right.)
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| antechurch
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Dictionnaire Architecture & Construction - Forbes
avant-corps (église): antechurch
Dictionary of Architecture and Construction - Harris
antechurch
A deep narthex at the front of a church, usually with a nave and side aisles.
If you want a picture I can send you the one in the Oxford Duden.
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