A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 130
.G>rct>etr5=ti3b,called also the Prothesis: the small tabl^ at the side of theAltar, or Communion-table, onwhich the bread and wine wereplaced before they were conse-crated. This was a very earlycustom in the Church, but inmany instances the place of thecredence-table was supplied bya shelf1… … m Archaeologia, vol. xi. p. 355. See alsoBingham, hook viii. chap. vi. sect. 22.There is a fine specimen of the ancientcredence-table of stone still remaining inthe church of St. Cross, near Winchester,and another in Fyfield church, Berkshire, In Chipping-Warden church, Northants.,is a wooden one…
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