An introduction to English church architecture : from the eleventh to the sixteenth century (1913)
Bond, Francis, d. 1918 · London : H. Milford · leaf 203
ver, entirely reject the idea that these openingsmay have served as holes for archers. VI. Alms are thought to have been distributed through them to beggars outsidethe church. But there is no record of any such practice, and the gratings wouldhave been in the way. VII. Mr Paley held that they were… … H. E. M. Christchurch : Rciedos impossible. Moreover if we are to postulate one anchorite for each low sidewindow, there must have been a vast multitude of them. VIII. Or they may have been for acolytes to pass the thurible through inorder to have the charcoal blown to a red heat in the open air…
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