westwork
English edit
Etymology edit
Calque of German Westwerk, from German West (“west”) + Werk (“work”); equivalent to English west + -work.
Pronunciation edit
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈwɛstwɜːk/
Noun edit
westwork (plural westworks)
- (architecture) The vaulted monumental structure at the western end of a church constructed in some medieval styles, flanked by two towers and containing the entrance.
- 1987, Malcolm Quantrill, The Environmental Memory: Man and Architecture in the Landscape of Ideas, page 134:
- Facing the raised sanctuary over the vast crypt they also often erected at the west end of the nave a towerlike structure with vaulted stories, that we call the "westwork."