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Sentence Examples
The second stone was apparently the octagonal upper portion of a piscina or lavacrum, like those found near the altar in 13 th century churches.
The church itself is home to a 100-year-old organ, 14th century carvings and a 12 th century baptism font known as a piscina.
The sedilia form an ensemble with the piscina, tomb of Christ, and patron's tomb, all carved with foliage and figures.
The south wall of the chancel has three Decorated windows with reticulated tracery and a Decorated double piscina in a recess with a shouldered arch.
When the new oil arrived, the old oil was burned or thrown in the piscina, or holy basin, a special drain for materials and liquids used in the sacraments.
Inside there is evidence of a pointed arch containing a piscina with trefoil head, and a large aumbry at the east end of the south wall.
Examples from Classical Literature
She sat up in the piscina, stepped out of the water, and walked to the door.
A tall, richly carved and traceried roodscreen, divides nave from chancel, which has a plain sedilia and piscina.
Near it is a double piscina, formed by a couple of shafts with capitals hollowed out with multifoil cusping.
The sedilia are Perpendicular, and an Early English piscina and aumbry are observable behind the altar.
In each of these the old piscina and aumbry remain near where the altar had been placed.
In the next chapel, that of the Four Virgins, there is nothing to show where the aumbry or the piscina was.
The altar, where a weekly requiem had been said for them, was gone, and the footpace and piscina alone showed where it had stood.
If there had ever been a stoup, a cross, a rude piscina, they had long since gone.
Its church retains its stoup, piscina, and ancient font, and there is some 15th cent.
The piscina or basin built in the wall is the place where you must look for the change.
Note the one candle on the altar, the bishops chair, the piscina with its cruet, and the triptych.
In the recess on the east side there is a piscina which marks the site of an altar.
There is a double Early English piscina in the south wall, and an ambry in the north.
Bronze sculptures of Mercury and Narcissus could make PS300 to PS600 and a stone piscina could make a talking point in a large home or garden.
The tower contains three bells, and in the chancel is a piscina.
Well, she got to Lourdes, and dipped her hand into the piscina.
A complete private bath must contain the piscina, or plunge.
Close to the sedilia is a piscina decorated in a similar manner.
It is not of great interest, but contains a stoup, a piscina, and a Norm.
There are remains of a piscina in this chapel, but very much battered.
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There are ambries in the walls and an eastern altar with a piscina.
