BOX PEW
Seating enclosed by a high wooden back and ends, entered by a door which protected the occupants from draughts.
Box Pew
- pew enclosed by high wooden back and ends, the latter having doors. Popular as a means of cramming people into Georgian "god boxes" where everyone had a right to a seat.
BOX PEW: a pew enclosed by a high back and ends, the ends having doors. BRACE: any timber reinforcing an angle. BRATTISHING: ornamental cresting.
Pews The benches where members of the congregation are seated. Some churches have chairs rather than pews. In some very old churches you will find box pews - pews with very high sides, backs and fronts.
Also concrete construction in which the loads are taken on cross-walls; also called cross-wall construction.Box girderA large beam of hollow-box section.Box pewPew enclosed by a high wooden back and ends, the latter having doors.
 See also: Church, Storey, Ground, Chancel, Architecture
  
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