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What does hagioscope mean?

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Noun
  1. (architecture) A small opening in an interior wall of a church, enabling those in the transept to view the high altar; sometimes called a squint
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It has a church, built about 1250, with a gabled tower and with a hagioscope in the chancel.
Traces of fresco remain under the panelling, and the chaplains room with its hagioscope for the altar is on the east.
The rest of the fabric has undergone restoration, though it retains a hagioscope and two piscinas.
In the west wall is a hagioscope, and from a room next the chapel a newel staircase led to the priest's room on the floor above.
There is a somewhat similar, but not so good, hagioscope at Cury.
A low side window near the southwest corner has been variously described as a confessional, a hagioscope, and a leper window.

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