Engineering:Gallery (architecture)

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In architecture, "gallery" may refer to:

  • A balcony or low roof promenade inside a building, or facing a courtyard.
    • Gallery (theatre), a zone above other seating, aisles or side rooms inside a theater or church
    • Minstrels' gallery, a balcony used by performing musicians
  • A covered passage connecting fortifications
    • Counterscarp gallery, a passage behind the back wall of the defensive ditch of a fort
    • Gibraltar's Great Siege Tunnels, also known as the Upper Galleries
  • Long gallery, a space in a large house used as both a sitting room and corridor