| AISLE | Passage between row of pews normally parallel to nave, choir or transept. |
| ALTAR | Flat-topped table for communion or offerings to deity. |
| AMBULATORY | Walkway, aisle round apse usually at east end of church. |
| APSE | Semicircular recess usually with vaulted roof in church. |
| ARCH | Curved structure supporting wall, floor or as an ornament. |
| AUMBRY | Closed recess in church wall. |
| BALDACHIN | Canopy over an altar. |
| BALUSTER | One in a series of short posts or pillars supporting a rail. |
| BELLCOT | Small building or tower in which a bell or bells are hung. |
| BELFRY | Bell tower, room or storey in which bells are hung. |
| BOSS | Projection at intersecting point of vault-ribs, usually carved. |
| BUTTRESS | Stone or wood support or prop built against wall. |
| CANOPY | Covering held over or suspended. |
| CHANCEL | Section of church near altar reserved for clergy and choir. |
| CHAPEL | Place of Christian worship other than church or cathedral. |
| CHERUB | Order of Angels, winged child. |
| CHEVET | Apsidal end of church with chapels radiating from it. |
| CHOIR | Chancel part of the church appropriated to choir. |
| CHURCH | Building for public Christian worship. |
| CHURCHYARD | Ground round a church, used for burials, usually enclosed. |
| CLERESTORY | Upper part of wall of nave, choir and transepts above the triforium or arches of nave and containing windows clear of the roof and aisle. |
| CLOISTER | Covered walk or arcade in monastery or large church. |
| COLUMN | Vertical cylinder or slightly tapering pillar usually supporting an arch or standing alone as monument. |
| CORBEL | Stone or wood, projecting out from wall to support weight. |
| CORNICE | Horizontal moulding at top of wall, ornamental and frequently carved. |
| CRESTING | Ornamental ridging to roof or wall. |
| CRUCIFIX | Figure of Christ on the Cross. |
| CRUCIFORM | Church in shape of cross with transepts. |
| EMBATTLE | Furnish with battlements. |
| EPISCOPACY | Government of the church by bishops. |
| EPITAPH | Inscription upon tombstone or tomb. |
| FINIAL | Ornamental finishing of apex of roof, top most part of pinnacle. |
| FLUTE | Vertical semi-cylindrical groove in pillar or column. |
| FONT | Bowl usually of stone, for baptismal water. |
| FRONTAL | Covering at front of altar, moveable. |
| FRONTLET | Cloth hanging over upper part of altar frontal. |
| GRADINE | One of a series of low steps or seats, ledge at back of altar. |
| GARGOYLE | Spout projecting from gutter in the form of a grotesque human or animal head, mouth or body. |
| LANCET | Narrow pointed arch or window. |
| LECTERN | Reading or singing desk in church especially for the lessons. |
| NAVE | Part of church from inner door to chancel or choir usually separated from aisles by pillars. |
| NICHE | Shallow recess in wall for a statue or vase. |
| ORATORY | Small Private Chapel. |
| ORPHREY | Band or panel frequently embroidered hung over altar frontal. |
| PARAPET | Low wall at edge of balcony or roof. |
| PEDESTAL | Base supporting a column or pillar. |
| PEW | Fixed church bench with back. |
| PIER | Pillar of solid masonry between windows. |
| PILASTER | Rectangular column especially one fastened into wall. |
| PILLAR | Rectangular column especially one fastened into wall. |
| PINNACLE | Small ornamental turret usually terminating in a pyramid or cone. |
| PISCINA | Perforated stone basin used to remove rinsing water from the chalice etc. |
| PORCH | Covered approach to entrance of building. |
| PREDELLA | Painting on vertical face of altar step. |
| PRESBYTERY | Part of the chancel beyond the choir sanctuary. |
| PULPIT | Enclosed raised platform in church or chapel from which the sermon is delivered by the preacher. |
| QUATREFOIL | Resembling symmetrical 4 lobed leaf or flower an opening in architectural tracery. |
| REREDOS | Ornamental screen covering wall at back of altar. |
| RESPOND | Half-pier or half-pillar attached to wall to support arch. |
| RETROCHOIR | Part of cathedral or large church behind the high altar. |
| RIDDEL | Curtain at side of altar. |
| ROOD | Crucifix, cross of Christ especially when raised on middle of screen. |
| SANCTUARY | Recognised as holy part of a church, place within the altar-rails. |
| SANCTUS | Hymn beginning 'Holy, holy, holy'. Bell in turret at junction of nave and chancel. |
| SCREEN | Stone or wood carved upright partition between the nave and choir. |
| SEDILIA | Canopied seats usually three, set in the south wall of the chancel in a Church. |
| SEPULCHRE | Tomb cut in rock or built of stone, burial vault or cave. |
| SHAFT | Part between base and capital of a column. |
| SLYPE | Passage-way from transept or cloister to chapter house or deanery usually covered. |
| SPANDREL | Space between either shoulder of arch and surrounding framework. |
| SPIRE | Structure in form of tall cone or pyramid tapering and rising above tower of church. |
| SQUINT | Opening in Church wall with view of altar. |
| STOUP | Holy water basin. |
| TOMB | Chamber or vault in earth or rock for reception of dead body. |
| TOWER | Tall structure usually either square or round and frequently forming part of a church. |
| TRACERY | Decorative stone open work especially in Gothic windows. |
| TRANSEPT | Either arm of transverse part of Cruciform church. |
| TRIFORIUM | Arcade or gallery in wall above arches at sides of nave and choir found in some large churches. |
| TRIPTYCH | Picture or carving on three panels and usually hinged together virtically. |
| TYMPANUM | Recessed vertical face of triangular space between lintel and arch of door. |
| VAULTED | An arched structure serving as roof, arched surface especially concave. |
| VENERABLE | Title of Archdeacons in the Church of England. |
| VERGER | Official of Church acting as caretaker and attendant. |
| VESTIBULE | Hall or lobby between entrance door and interior of church. |
| VESTMENT | Garments of priests, choristers etc., worn during divine service. |
| VESTRY | Place in church used for keeping vestments, vessels and records. |
