Chevron.—A zig-zag ornament.
Chevet.—The French name for an apse when surrounded by chapels; see the plan of Westminster Abbey (Fig. [6]).
Choir.—The part of a church in which the services are celebrated; usually, but not always, the east end or chancel. In a Spanish church the choir is often at the crossing.
Clerestory.—The upper story or row of windows lighting the nave of a Gothic church.
Cloister.—A covered way round a quadrangle of a monastic building.
Clustered (shafts).—Grouped so as to form a pier of some mass out of several small shafts.
Corbel.—A projecting stone (or timber) supporting, or seeming to support, a weight (Fig. [k]).
Fig. k.—Early Renaissance Corbel.