Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components (hierarchy name)
4. components (objects parts)
5. [components by specific context]
6. building divisions
7. rooms and spaces
8. [rooms and spaces by building type]
9. religious building spaces
10. Christian religious building spaces

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components
4. components
5. components by specific context
6. building divisions
7. rooms and spaces
8. rooms and spaces by function
9. entrance spaces

Narrower term/s

• esonarthexes
• exonarthexes

Anotations

Scope note:

Entrance porches in early basilican churches, and for interior vestibules across the western end of later churches. For narthexlike spaces at the west end of some English and French Romanesque and Gothic churches, often used as chapels, prefer "galilees."