A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 211
are often the most striking feature. Exam-ples are seen on Merton and Magdalen towers in Oxford,and many of the towers in Somersetshire. This term is sometimes applied to turrets, and Williamof Worcester nses it for a spire. Piscina (Lat. = a reservoir of water), originally thereservoir and filter… … Cromnush, c, 1150. Wai-mington. c. man. off whatever is ponred into it; it is fixed at a convenientheight above the floor, and was used to receive the waterin which the priest washed his hands, as well as that withwhich the chalice was rinsed at the time of the celebrationof the mass; it is placed…
