. Enciclopedia delle antichità : ed elementi di archeologia, classica e confessione mediæval. Il Chancel era diviso in coro e presbiterio (la parte rialzata dove sorgeva l'altare), e dove era un retro-coro, o Lady-Chapel, aveva uno schermo murale. In queste piccole strutture (dice mi. Dallaway, ubisupra) il più ricco tabernacolo-lavoro di Niches, finali, e Pedestals, eccitiamo l'ammirazione. Le statue dei Re e dei Vescovi erano solitamente collocate nei primi, mentre quelle dei santi tutelarySaints occupavano l'altro esclusivamente. ARCHITETTURA DEI BRITANNICI, ANGLOSASSONI, &C.. 149 sulla s

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. Encyclopedia of antiquities : and elements of archaeology, classical and mediæval . fter confession. The Chancel was divided into theChoir and Presbytery (the raised partwhere the altar stood), and where thereAas a Retro-Choir, or Lady-Chapel, it had a mural screen. In these smallstructures (says Mi. Dallaway, ubisupra) the richest tabernacle-work ofNiches, Finials, and Pedestals, exciteour admiration. Statues of Kings andBishops were usually placed in the firstmentioned, while those of tutelarySaints occupied the other exclusively. ARCHITECTURE OF THE BRITONS, ANGLO-SAXONS, &C. 149 On the side of the altar was oftenplaced a tomb, not only containing aninterment, but vised for supporting thePaschall, as the tomb was called forexhibition of the resurrection. (SeeWhitakers Richmondshire, i. 5 ; Ly-sonss Britannia, vi. 4:?0, &c.) OfStalls, Flscince, &c. see p. 122, seq. Campaniles were towers on pur-pose for the bells, as at 8alis])ury, Tewkesbury, &c. The latter was after-wards a prison, and removed in IN 17-It is here represented from KnightsTewkesbury:. Lanthony, near Gloucester, had evenfour bell-tov/ers and bells. FosbrokesGloucester, p. 292. Towers, or Spires, as before de-scribed (pp. 114, 135). Carter 1^ callsthe lovrer part of a Tower, emergingfrom Transepts, the Lantern; othersunderstand by the term (or LouvreTower) a Tower open to the sky, hkethat of Ely. Some churches have Flyixg Gal-leries, communicating passages fromone wall to another, like the whispering- * Carters Explanation of Architectural Terms, &c. in Gent. Mag. 1802 and 1803. gallery at Gloucester. {See the ylate^2^. 119.) Over tlie South Porch is some-times a bust or figure of the PatronSaint. [At Ruerdean, in Gloucester-shire, is over the Porch-entrance anarch with a pedestal for a small figureor bust, and over the church dourwithin, a bas-relief of St. George andthe Dragon, copied in p. 151, from acommunication by Sir S. R. Mevrickto the Gentlemans Magazine.] Justwithin the church door, or be

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