|
A benitier or benatura is a stone font or vase for containing holy water, usually placed in a niche in the chief porch or entrance oi a Roman Catholic church, some times in one of the pillars close to the door, into which the members of the congregation on entering dip the fingers of the right hand, and then cross themselves.
 Research Benitier
A Stoic was a follower of an Athenian school of philosophy named from the stoa (porch) in which its founder, Zeno of Citium, taught.
Research Stoic
A Simple Twist Of Fate is a drama starring Steve Martin, Gabriel Byrne, Laura Linney and Catherine O'Hara in a story about a recluse who finds himself the unwilling foster parent of a young girl after her mother collapses and dies on his front porch during a snow storm. A Simple Twist Of Fate was directed by Gillies MacKinnon in 1994.
Research A Simple Twist Of Fate
An atrium is a square hall lighted from above, into which rooms open at one or more levels. Originally, the entrance hall to a Roman house, the concept was adopted as an open court with a porch or gallery around three or more sides at the entrance of a basilica or other church. The name was extended in the Middle Ages to the open churchyard or cemetery.
Research Atrium
In architecture, a carriage porch is a canopy or roofed pavilion covering the driveway at the entrance to a building. It was intended as a shelter for those alighting from vehicles at the door.
Research Carriage Porch
In architecture a Galilee is a porch or waiting room, usually at the west end of an abbey church, where the monks collected on returning from processions, where bodies were laid previous to interment, and where women were allowed to see the monks to whom they were related, or to hear divine service. The name is also frequently applied to the porch of a church, as at Ely and Durham cathedrals.
Research Galilee
In architecture a loggia is a roofed open gallery. It differs from a veranda in being more architectural, and in forming more decidedly a part of the main edifice to which it is attached; it differs from a porch, in being intended not as an entrance but as an out-of-door sitting-room.
Research Loggia
In architecture a narthex is the portico in front of ancient churches; sometimes, the atrium or outer court surrounded by ambulatories. The term is generally used for any vestibule, lobby, or outer porch, leading to the nave of a church.
Research Narthex
In architecture, an oriel is a porch or balcony at the head of an outdoor staircase.
Research Oriel
Originally, a parvis was the place or court before the main entrance of a cathedral. Later the term was applied to the room above the church porch.
Research Parvis
|
The Probert Encyclopaedia was designed, edited and programed by
Matt and Leela Probert
©1993 - 2009 The Probert Encyclopaedia
Southampton, United Kingdom
|
|
|
Abbreviations
