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I have removed the disgraceful canards "and on weekdays the large open area often served for the town marketplace, political meetings, places of various trades including, on some occasions, even that of prostitution. Often smelling of animal dung and human urine, naves were not very clean places. Hence, rood screens aka jubes were designed to separate the more sacred areas of the cathedral and keep out the unwashed and unholy." Ignorant fantasy, with protestant evangelical "moneychangers in the temple" overtones, an embarrassment, no better in its way than the equally foolish "built by willing hands from the pious citizenry" line one sometimes has to listen to. With all the NPOV talk at Wikipedia, more history, less attitude, please. Wetman 21:34, 4 Jul 2004 (UTC)
I hope no one will be upset that this nice image is removed. It has no visual information that was not better presented in the very similar illustration that is kept. The article does still need a good image showing the emphasis within a nave of a crossing. A Renaissance nave that shows all these nave features but in Classical detailing is needed too. A nave from the exterior showing flying buttresses could tie in. An illustration that shows changes of level between nave and chancel would surely provoke some good added text. Images looking the other way, showing the effects of a rose window or of a choirloft on the nave would elicit more Nave Chat. --Wetman 12:47, 26 Mar 2005 (UTC)
I added the 'dubious' tag to the claim that St. John the Divine is the tallest nave. Though it is a lovely church, it's nave is decidedly shorter than that of Amiens Cathedral or several others, if I remember right. I'd like to find an actual tallest nave for the title but I'm not sure what that is--might be the Cathedral of La Palma, maybe Florence Cathedral. 63.167.237.65 21:18, 20 January 2007 (UTC)
In additon to "bowl the round nave down the hill of heaven," Hamlet contains a wheel motif which includes a triple pun on knave/nave: "There's nary a villain dwelling [= place where villains live = hamlet] in all Denmark but he's an arrant knave"... "without more circumstance...for my own part... I'll go pray" [nave of church] "the cease of majesty...is a massy wheel...to whose huge spokes ten thousand lesser things " [The Hamlet line of kings are like naves with their subjects as spokes. Hamlet wants to breach that custom and be more like the nave of a church.] ... "These are but whirling words" For more details, see http://academia.wikia.com/wiki/Motifs_in_Hamlet#Fine_Revoluton --Ray Eston Smith Jr 00:05, 13 March 2007 (UTC)
You might consider correcting the record section, since S.Pietro isn't in Rome, nor in Italy.— Preceding unsigned comment added by 62.78.145.119 (talk • contribs) 26 April 2010
According to wikipedia's own page for Duke Chapel it's a good 60 feet longer than the listed record holder
what's up with that? are any of these records cited? I suck at wikipedia —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.136.136.101 (talk) 19:02, 19 May 2011 (UTC)
Is it St Albans or Winchester?
To my untrained eye, the pages seem to contradict:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Albans_Cathedral "its nave is the longest of any cathedral in England" "the second longest cathedral in the United Kingdom (after Winchester)"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Winchester_Cathedral "It is one of the largest cathedrals in England, with the longest nave and greatest overall length of any Gothic cathedral in Europe"
The article may well be correct, but can someone double-check this is all self consistent? I'm guessing it's some quirk to do with architectural style norman vs gothic?
Mike S — Preceding unsigned comment added by 152.78.120.108 (talk) 13:46, 22 July 2013 (UTC)
Winchester Nave is only 242 feet (73 metres) long. The length given in this article is actually the length of the whole church. St Albans at 83m is I believe the longest in England.
If St. Peter's (at 46 meters) has the tallest completed nave at 46 meters, there's no way Milan (at 45 meters) can have the tallest completed vaulted nave--the nave of St. Peter's is indeed vaulted, with a barrel vault. Perhaps Milan has the tallest completed rib-vaulted nave? But that's getting dangerously trivial. Perhaps we should just delete the reference to Milan? 206.208.105.129 (talk) 14:57, 30 July 2014 (UTC)
The "schematical illustration" misleadingly includes (pink colouring) the aisles into the nave. The eso- or internal narthex/vestibule is in that case part of the nave, but the aisles are not. Who knows how to re-hash the plan accordingly? Thanks, Arminden (talk) 11:57, 12 July 2018 (UTC)
Please keep this in mind if you wish to re-edit. Thanks! Arminden (talk) 04:38, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
Let's drop the ego. It's about inaccuracies, and more often than not, they are caused by the editor missing the point. Sorry if it wasn't the case. Emphasis helps, you can't imagine how often editors insist on obvious misunderstandings. True, maybe I'm "damaged goods" after too much editing on conflict-ridden Middle Eastern topics, where POV rules supreme.
Now I fixed it as good as I could, after getting inspiration from the Chancel article. Still didn't figure out if the esonarthex does or doesn't belong, if one applies the narrower definition, but the darn vestibule stretches undivided across both nave and aisles. Who has the answer? Or in English things are less strict that, say, in Duden-ruled German, and this is a non-topic to start with? Arminden (talk) 14:36, 13 July 2018 (UTC)
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