Part 35

_Presbytery._--The part of a church where the high altar stands.

_Reredos._--A screen at the back of an altar.

_Rood-Loft._--A gallery over the screen separating the nave from the chancel, on which the great cross or _rood_ was fixed.

_Sedilia._--The seats for the officiating clergy.

_Soffit._--The under side of an arch, cornice, etc.

_Spandrel._--The triangular space between arches.

_Splay._--The expansion given to windows and other openings by slanting the sides.

_Springing._--The point at which an arch unites with its support.

_Squint._--An oblique opening in the wall of a church.

_Stoup._--A vessel or stone basin formed in the wall, serving as a receptacle for holy water.

_String-Course._--A horizontal moulding running along a wall.

_Transom._--A horizontal cross-bar in a window.

_Triforium._--A gallery in the wall over the arches which separates the body of the church from the aisles.

_Tympanum._--The space above the horizontal opening of a doorway and the arch above; the space between an arch and the triangular drip-stone or hood-mould which surmounts it.

INDEX

Aberdeen, 443

Bangor, 426

Bath, 161

Beverley, 327

Brechin, 442

Bristol, 138

Canterbury, 68

Carlisle, 272

Chester, 248

Chichester, 96

Dunblane, 444

Dunkeld, 445

Durham, 283

Ely, 377

Exeter, 164

Glasgow, 439

Glossary of Architectural Terms, 450

Gloucester, 178

Hereford, 204

Iona, 441

Kirkwall, 448

Lichfield, 230

Lincoln, 337

Liverpool, 263

Llandaff, 429

Manchester, 264

Newcastle, 282

Norwich, 393

Oxford, 125

Peterborough, 360

Ripon, 297

Rochester, 57

Salisbury, 108

Southwell, 351

St. Alban's, 409

St. Andrew's, 446

St. Asaph's, 423

St. David's, 432

St. Giles', Edinburgh, 447

St. Paul's, 8

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Truro, 177

Wakefield, 333

Wells, 149

Westminster, 35

Winchester, 85

Worcester, 216

York, 309

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Transcriber's Notes

Punctuation and spelling errors and inconsistent hyphenation have been corrected.

Italic text is denoted by _underscore_ and bold text by =equal signs=.

In the inscriptions described on page 197, the letters a, e and u which have macrons in the original text, have been represented in this version using circumflexes, i.e. grâ, plê and Jhû.

In this version of the text, superscripts are represented using the caret character, e.g. y^e.

The oe ligatures in the text are shown as separate oe characters.

In ambiguous cases, the text has been left as it appears in the original book.