A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 279
ch, into which all who enter dip their fingers andcross themselves. Tn this country a small niche witha stone basin was formed in the wall, either in the porchor within the church, close to the door, or in one of the STAYXTALD-HOLE=Patlog-hoIe. Stereobate (Gr.), baee of a wall.Stoa (Gr.) = Latin… … Pylle Church, Sosufreei. Romwy, HauIs. in situation, arc smaller and plainer, and very rarely haveany hole in the bottom : examples in a mutilated conditionremain in various churches, as in the south porch of CotonChurch, Cambridgeshire ; in the north porch of ThornhamChurch, Kent, is one in a…
