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The area of a bay indicated in a reconstruction of a Gothic vault, from Le Premier Tome de l'architecture de Philibert de L'Orme (1567), by Philibert Delorme

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bay, in architecture, any division of a building between vertical lines or planes, especially the entire space included between two adjacent supports; thus, the space between two columns, or pilasters, or from pier to pier in a church, including that part of the vaulting or ceiling between them, is known as a bay.