| These objects were probably mounted at the heads of poles supporting a catafalque or canopy. |
| Over the weekend his body lay in state in a silver mounted coffin on a catafalque in front of the Speaker's platform. |
| Propped up at one end by a broken-off marble Ionian capital is a long, slanting wooden board, suggesting a collapsed catafalque. |
| The bearer party lifts the coffin from the catafalque in Westminster Hall and carries it to the gun carriage outside the North Door. |
| Eight pall bearers from the Irish Guards lifted it from the gun-carriage and carried it slowly to the catafalque. |
| By last night, almost 50,000 people were expected to have filed past the catafalque. |
