Parvise

Parvise or Parvis may refer to:
A room over the porch of a church-quite often found in Norman churches in England.

They are often richly ornamented, and, as at Southwell in England and Kelso in Scotland, have rooms over, which have been erroneously called parvises.

Parvise. - Room built over a church porch.
Pew. - Wooden seats or benches in the church; these only appeared at the end of the Mediæval period.
Perpendicular. - ca.

See also: Church, Norma, Norman, Porch, Storey