Gallery (architecture)

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

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