Glossary of ecclesiastical ornament and costume, compiled from ancient authorities and examples (1846)
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore, 1812-1852, Smith, Bernard, Hanhart, M., lithographer, Hanhart, N., lithographer, Maguire, Henry Calton · London, H. G. Bohn · leaf 187
167 iantent. them, and on principal Feasts they are filled with oil and lighted, so that the church has light by night as well as by day.' The lamps suspended in the ancient churches differed considerably in form from most of those now in use. They were often placed in the centre of large basins ;… … rials, and carried in the hand of the acolyth, or when the distance was long, in rural districts, attached to the neck of the mule on which the priest rode. From the Parish accounts of St. Margaret, Westminster. — Paid for a Lantern to be carried before the Sacrament in Visita- tion, 2s lOd. 1…
Church decoration and ornament · Church vestments · Christian art and symbolism
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