-
architecture hagioscopes were
often a low
window in the
chancel wall and were
frequently protected by
either a
wooden shutter or iron bars.
Hagioscopes are found...
- Cell of a
recluse with
hagioscope in Bro Church, Gotland...
-
shuttered window in the
common wall
facing the sanctuary,
called a "
hagioscope" or "squint".
Anchorites provided spiritual advice and
counsel to visitors...
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pentagonal building,
possibly a sacristy. It
should also be
noted the
hagioscope or "Trou à lépreux" (leper hole),
consisting of an
external opening "pierced...
-
about 1788, was removed; this
revealed a rood
staircase doorway, and two
hagioscopes between nave and chancel. The
plaster ceiling of the
chancel was removed...
-
opened up so that the
chapels now form the
north aisle. A squint, or
hagioscope, near the
altar is
claimed to be England's longest. The
tower and spire...
- An
interesting detail of the nave is the so-called "leper's squint" or
hagioscope on the
north side. This
small aperture through the oak wall was formerly...
- arcade,
together with a new
tower of cut
stone at the West end.
There are
hagioscopes (squints) in both transepts, an
aumbry is in the
north and two more in...
-
century former large pointe darch portal in the
southern wall, two
closed hagioscopes ↓
Steenfelde (Westoverledingen) (Leer district) Sts. Mary & Nicholas...
- the wall
through which she
could receive the
Eucharist and a
squint (or
hagioscope) for her use for
prayer and reflection. She left her cell and in 1332...
