A glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1845)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford : J. H. Parker · leaf 372
ac?omcnts$iiufefyen :an old term signifying a niche, thecanopy over the head of a niche orstall,&c, the ornamental erection placedon an altar in the Roman Catholic churchas a receptacle for the pix; these lastwere often of considerable height, formedof light open-work, enriched with a… … 356 TABERNACLE—TABERNACLE-WORK. ornamented with pinnacles, tracery, crockets, and other enrich-ments j those over niches are described under Niche. Thetabernacle was sometimes in the form of a tower. The Sackament-hauslkin, in the church of St. Laurence, Nu-remberg, constructed by Adam Kraft,…
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