The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture: With an Explanation of Technical Terms, and a Centenary of Ancient Terms, Volume 2G. Bell and sons, 1882 |
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Abbey church Abbot adjoining amongst anchorites ancient appears arch Archbishop Barton Turf bell beneath Benedictine Bishop buildings buried canopies Canterbury Canterbury Cathedral carved Cathedral chalice chamber chancel chantry chapel chapter house charnel choir Christ circa A.D. Cistercian cloister court contained conventual church cross crypt desk died A.D. doorway dormitory Durham early east end Easter Sepulchre ecclesiæ feet fifteenth century font Fountains Abbey fourteenth century Friars gate house glass head high altar holy inches Item Kent latten latter Leicestershire Lincolnshire loft Mary monastery monastic offices monks nave Norfolk Norman north side north wall Northamptonshire Oxfordshire painted panel piscina placed plain Polesworth porch priest Priory recluse refectory remains represented rites rood rood-loft rood-screens saints sculptured sedilia Sepulchral Effigy shire shrine Somersetshire sometimes south aisle south side south wall thirteenth century thurible tomb tower transept Tunstead twelfth century vault vestments vestry Warwickshire Wenlock Priory whilst window wooden Worstead
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Page 115 - English Church Furniture, Ornaments, and Decorations, at the Period of the Reformation, as exhibited in a List of the Goods Destroyed in Certain Lincolnshire Churches, AD 1566," is the title of a laborious work, published under the editorship of ilr.
Page 134 - The Romish doctrine concerning Purgatory, Pardons, Worshipping, and Adoration, as well of Images as of Reliques, and also Invocation of Saints, is a fond thing vainly invented, and grounded upon no warranty of Scripture, but rather repugnant to the Word of God.
Page 108 - Altar, before the service time ; and there lay it within the said Sepulchre, with great devotion, with another picture of our Saviour Christ, in whose breast they did enclose, with great reverence, the most holy and blessed Sacrament of the Altar...
Page 7 - And first, let the building be long, with its head to the east, with its vestries on both sides at the east end, and so it will be like a ship. In the middle let the bishop's throne be placed, and on each side of him let the presbytery sit down; and let the deacons stand near at hand, in close and small girt garments, for they are like the mariners and managers of the ship...
Page 105 - Clopton's little chappel there, in a vacant place of the wall, I think upon a tomb of one of his ancestors, the said frame with the tapers was set near the steps going up to the said Altar.
Page 114 - That the laudable and honest Ceremonies which were wont to be used, frequented, and observed in the Church, be also hereafter frequented, used, and observed.
Page 107 - Three pair of angels' wings ; four angels, made of timber, and well painted. Item. The Father, the crown and visage ; the ball with a cross upon it, well gilt with fine gold. Item. The Holy Ghost coming out of heaven into the sepulchre.
Page 112 - With tapers all the people come, and at the barriars stay, Where downe upon their knees they fall, and night and day they pray, And violets, and every kinde of flowres, about the grave They straw, and bring in all their giftes, and presents that they have...
Page 110 - ... laudable customs, rites, and ceremonies, be not to be contemned and cast away, but to be used and continued, as things good and laudable, to put us in remembrance of those spiritual things that they do signify, not suffering them to be forgotten, or to be put in oblivion, but renewing them in our memories from time to time.
Page 159 - And these beforenamed two men, in order to remove from themselves the suspicion of such a favourable theft, made a certain hollow trunk, with a hole in the middle or at the top, and fastened with an iron lock ; this they caused to be set up in the great church, near the door without the choir, in the way of the people, so that therein persons should put their contributions for the building of the tower.