Chapter house

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A chapter house is a building or room attached to a cathedral or collegiate church in which meetings are held. They can also be found in medieval monasteries.

When attached to a cathedral, the cathedral chapter meets there. When attached to a collegiate church, the dean, prebendaries and canons of the college meet there.

Examples of chapter houses can been seen at:

• Basilica di Santa Croce di Firenze
• Beauchief Abbey
• Beverley Minster
• Exeter Cathedral
• Gloucester Cathedral
• Lincoln Cathedral
• Margam Abbey
• Rievaulx Abbey
• York Minster

Chapterhouse Dune, the sixth novel in Frank Herbert's Dune science fiction series, contains a planet named Chapterhouse which serves the function of a chapter house for a fictional quasi-religious order.

 

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