It is generally supposed that these crypts were used as Mortuary Chapels and the eastern one has in fact a piscina and aumbry, showing that there was once an altar.
The altar was below the eastern window, the piscina (restored) stands on the south side.
The piscina still remains in the south wall, and there is a trace of the old altar visible on the wall.
A simple piscina on the south side, about a foot above the present floor, shows that the old floor level was much lower.
A small piscina against the south wall indicates the position of its altar.
The eastern part of the south aisle as far as the screen formed another chapel as the dilapidated piscina in the south wall shows.
The base of the altar still exists, and so does the piscina in the south wall.
It has heavy Norman and early English piers, and sedilia and piscina in the chancel with Norman enrichment.
In the interior, the timber roof of the nave, the clustered columns, and the sedilia and piscina are excellent specimens of work of the decorated period.
The east window square-headed, of some height from the floor, shewing that there was an altar once below it, and a piscina occurs in the pier of the arch on the south side.
The Peyvres are buried in the south transept of Toddington church, which was antiently a Chantry, as there is a piscina in the south-east corner.
This he supposed was a piscina drain, and accordingly set it up in the recess beside his altar.
So runs the quaint and simple legend of our Tamar-side; and so ascend into the undated era of the ninth or tenth age the early Norman arches, font, porch, and piscina of Morwenstow church.
The whole passage from Mr. Baring-Gould is as follows: "The ancient piscina in the wall is of early English date.
It is of the very earliest type of Christian architecture, and, for aught we know, it may be the oldestpiscina in all the land.
Morwenstow Piscina and a Hebrew altar, with a note by Hawker.
It has also been stated that Mr. Hawker obtained the piscina from the ruined chapel at Longfurlong, Hartland, and placed it in his church at Morwenstow (Rev.
The piscina is a water-drain formerly placed near the altar and consisting of a shallow stone basin, or sink, with a drain to carry off whatever is poured into it.
In the chancel is a piscina of Early English date, together with a sedilia of the same period.
There is a piscina in the chapel and another in the chancel.
In the sanctuary note the fine piscina and the brasses to the De Cheddars--one to Sir Thomas on a recessed altar-tomb on the N.
St Nicholas's Chapel to the Lady Chapel, and perhaps a piscina opposite the latter; in the 13th cent.
St Dunstan's) containing a few features of interest in the chancel, among them being the cornice, the piscina and aumbry, and an old chair dated 1667.
The sanctuary contains a sedile and piscina, and a stoup and a rougher piscina will be found in the nave.
The tower arches are panelled, and there is a piscina in the chancel.
The chancel contains a double piscina under a large foliated arch, and triple sedilia.
The piscina deserves notice; it is said to be Norman.
There is a goodpiscina in the chancel, and the basin of the font is ancient.
The loft apparently contained a piscina similar to Eastbourne Old Church.
The prevailing style of the building is early Decorated, and it contains a piscina believed to be one of the largest and most perfect in England.
With other infirm and decrepid people he was dipped in the piscina and so efficacious did this treatment prove that he came out another man, threw his crutches to the ground and walked, as an onlooker expressed it, "like a rural postman.
He could find no answer, but watched her as she was taken into the piscina reserved for women, and then, in mortal sorrow, fell upon his knees.
Sister Sophie, who barked like a dog, plunges into the piscina and emerges from it with a clear, pure voice, chanting a canticle.
In lieu, therefore, of pulling the corpse about in order to strip it bare, Berthaud was of opinion that it would be better to dip it in the piscina clad as it was.
We will plunge the man's body into the piscina and we will entreat the Lord, the master of the world, to resuscitate him, to give unto us this extraordinary sign of His sovereign beneficence!
He thought that she wished to speak to him and leant forward: "Shall I remain here at your disposal to take you to the piscina by-and-by?
The Sisters had to carry her in their arms, and on reaching the piscina the lady-hospitallers wouldn't bathe her.
And thus Pierre lingered with the sufferer in the men's piscina for nearly half an hour, whilst Gerard returned to the Grotto to fetch another patient.
And in order that our prayers may be the more efficacious, in order that they may have time to spread and ascend to the feet of the Eternal Father, we will not lower the body into the piscina until four o'clock this afternoon.
There is also a double piscina with shelf in good preservation, and a large altar-step, 6 feet 2 inches by 4 feet.
St. Andrew's Chapel--contains a doublepiscina with a shelf in good preservation.
Most of its original character is lost and buried beneath the continued alterations of modern art, and the observer of ancient tracery and sculptorship will find but little to amuse him beyond a mutilated piscina or circular door-way.
The North aisle is of modern structure, with plain granite lintels, and a square-headed piscinain the East wall.
In the South transept are octagonal pillars without capitals, so that the mouldings of the archivolt run into them, and in the East wall is a piscina cut in granite, ogee-headed and trefoiled with a shelf across it.
Between the first and second of these windows stood a very beautiful double piscina which Sir Gilbert Scott repaired and transferred to the New Chapel.
The only architectural features, however, at present visible of mediaeval character are the piscina and the buttresses on the south side.
In the south wall a piscina may be noticed, and on the north side of the altar stands a Renaissance font of grey-veined marble which was formerly in use in the nave.
Radcliffe of Ordsall in 1498, have no longer any separate existence; the only sign of their having been chapels that remains is a piscina in the pier at the south east corner of St. James' Chapel.
In the wall that shuts off the guard-room is a cinquefoiled piscina and a four-light window, the stonework of which is like that in the east window, and this window allowed anyone in the guard-room to join in Divine service.
In the south porch is a bit of early English work, a piscina and holy-water stoup side by side, under one arch, with a very slender detached shaft between.
The church has been much restored, and altered from the original building; evidently there were once three altars in it; and a piscina still remains in the south aisle, close to the west wall of the transept.
A slight pause ensued; then Charles added, "But perhaps these men actually do wish to introduce the realities as well as the externals: perhaps they wish to use the piscina as well as to have it .
Charles asked the use of the piscina--he did not know its name--and was told that there was always a piscina in the old churches in England, and that there could be no proper restoration without it.
The piscina in the doorway should be noticed for its carving of a dog gnawing a bone.
The east end of the north aisle forms a roomy chapel which is dedicated to St. Stephen, and contains a piscina of the same type as those in the neighbouring chapels.
There is, nevertheless, a decorated piscina in the east wall to remind one of its former purpose.
The short wings of the reredos have panels and traceried openings, and, on the south, a piscina which looks almost too tiny to be real.
The niches over the altar have been hacked level with the wall, and the little pillar piscina is also defaced.
When the church was enlarged in the fourteenth century this piscina was placed near the altar.
A Piscina was a water drain, consisting of a shallow basin or sink with a hole in the bottom to carry off the water with which the priest washed his hands.
The piscina in the chancel still remains, recessed in a fenestella.
The arcades which divide these chapels from the choir are extraordinarily beautiful, as are the restored sedilia and piscina with their gables and pinnacles and lovely diaper work.
Notice also the Flamboyant tracery of the windows, so typical of the Channel Islands, and the very striking piscina in the south aisle of the choir.
A late piscinahas also been inserted in the south transept.
It has a piscina in the south wall near the east end.
In the south wall, and in the usual position near the east end, there are remains of a triple sedilia; there is a piscina in a pointed recess, having a trefoil-headed niche in the wall behind.
