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Example sentences for "parvise"

Lexicographically close words:
parva; parvenir; parvenu; parvenues; parvenus; parvo; parvum; parvus; pas; pasa
  1. There was a flight of steps leading up, on the inside, into the Parvise or room over the southern porch.

  2. This armour was kept in the parish church at Repton; up to the year 1840 some of it still remained in the parvise or room over the south porch.

  3. We enter the Minster by the north porch, which is a fine piece of Perpendicular work, with a parvise over it.

  4. We now notice the Porch with parvise over it.

  5. The North Porch is large and massive, and has a parvise in the upper storey.

  6. Illustration Chester Cathedral] There is a porch, with a parvise over it, of Late Perpendicular design, with Tudor doorway, and battlements and pinnacles.

  7. There is a parvise over it with Perpendicular battlements, and figures of our Lord and the twelve Apostles in niches.

  8. The North Porch is good Norman work, and has a parvise which is very unusual in a porch of this date.

  9. This parvise was the scene of the story of the hiding of Mistress Clay in the troublous times of the Civil War.

  10. There is a parvise in the second storey with Perpendicular windows.

  11. The oldest part of the church is the south porch, with a parvise over it.

  12. One of the chapels on the south side has a parvise over it.

  13. Note (1) the parvise or gallery over the S.

  14. The central doorway must have been of still greater beauty; but the whole of the upper part of it is hidden by the porch and parvise inserted beneath the central arch.

  15. The procession having arrived before the parvise of Notre Dame, each division of which it was composed took the place assigned to it.

  16. The procession deployed on the square before the parvise of the Cathedral of Notre Dame.

  17. Jocelyn, while the men who had gathered in the tavern trooped out precipitately, saying: "Let us hasten to the parvise of the church.

  18. Saying this, Jocelyn wended his steps towards the parvise of the church.

  19. Probably the largest parvise in England is at Bishop's-Cleeve, near Cheltenham.

  20. Over the porch at Finedon (of which we give an engraving) is a parvise in which is contained a valuable library of about 1000 volumes, placed there by Sir John English Dolben, Bart.

  21. The parvise is to be found over church porches in all parts of England.

  22. In some cases, as at Martley, Worcestershire, the upper moulding of the original Norman doorway has been concealed by the parvise of later architecture.


  23. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parvise" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.