Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small opening in an interior wall of a church, enabling those in the transept to view the main altar.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In medieval architecture, an opening in a wall, screen, or barrier of a church, to afford a view of the chief altar to worshipers in the chapels or side aisles; a squint. See
squint .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a
squint .
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- noun architecture A small
opening in aninterior wall of achurch , enabling those in thetransept to view thehigh altar ; sometimes called asquint
Etymologies
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Examples
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The visitor will notice the ancient font; also a hagioscope and holy water stoup.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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It has a church, built about 1250, with a gabled tower and with a hagioscope in the chancel.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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From the south transept a hagioscope slants through the wall to the chancel; and in one of the windows of the north aisle is a bit of very old, though not very beautiful, stained glass.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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In the west wall is a hagioscope, and from a room next the chapel a newel staircase led to the priest's room on the floor above.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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There are interesting brasses to Luke Garnon, John Cooke and his wife, and a curious squint or hagioscope.
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The hagioscope in the chancel appears as a window in the outer wall.
Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter Edric Holmes
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The church, which is chiefly late Decorated, has a very good Norman doorway, and a most interesting hagioscope, resembling that of
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The two chapels opening from the chancel contain some interesting features, which include a hagioscope, and both are enclosed by old screens.
Yorkshire Gordon Home 1923
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The hagioscope, or "squint" in this church, and the "leper" window in St. Peter's are interesting relics of the Middle Ages.
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It will be noticed also that in the aisle immediately behind is a raised gallery of Decorated character, access to which was gained from the sanctuary by steps on the left side of the bay of the arcade, in which occurs the hagioscope.
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