This is a glossary of the technical terms used on the Norfolk Churches site. The glossary is organised in alphabetical order; click on the word you want to find out about, and a definition of it will appear in this window.
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Affirming Catholicism, aisle, altar, Anglo-catholic churches, apse, arcade, aumbry
banner stave locker, baptistery, Baptism, Broad Church, Butterfield
Cautley, chancel, chantry, chrism, chrismatory, clerestory, Comper, confessional, consecration cross, corbel, credence
decalogue, dedicatory inscription, doom, Dowsing
Easter sepulchre, English Orthodox, Eucharist, Evangelical churches, evangelistic symbols
font, flushwork, flying bishops, Forward In Faith
hammerbeam roof, hatchment, High Church, holy water stoup
lancet, Laud, Lenten veil, Low Church, low side window
Mass, mensa, misericord, monstrance, Mortlock
parclose, Phipson, piscina, poppyhead, pulpit, pyx
Reform, reliquary, reredos, retable, rood, royal arms
sacraments, sacring bell, sacristy, Salvin, sanctuary, sanctus bell, screen, sedilia, spandrels, squint