Piscina
Recess with basin and drain for washing the sacred vessels.
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PISCINA
A shallow basin with a drain for washing sacred vessels, usually set into a wall to the south of the altar
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Piscina
A niche with a drain (like a sink) used to wash liturgical vessels after the mass.
Pre-Conquest
Before the Norman Conquest of England in 1066. Synonymous with Anglo-Saxon.
Piscina - Hand basin with drain, usually set against or into a wall.
Pitch - Roof slope.
Pitching - Rough cobbling on floor, as in courtyards.
PISCINA A niche near the altar in a church, containing a small basin and drain for rinsing altar vessels and ceremonial ablutions.
The word comes from the Latin for a fish-pond.
PITCH Roof slope.
PITCHING Rough cobbling.
Pillar piscinaIn a church or chapel, a free-standing basin (piscina) for washing Mass vessels.Pilotis(French): 20th-century term for pillars or stilts that support a building above an open ground floor.
piscinaA Piscina is a stone basin used as a fish-pond or a bathing-pond (Latin picis=fish).Example 1: Cicero and the urbane villa, Example 2: Monastery Garden Plans planterA Planter is an ornamental container for growing plants.
walls; if a series of two or more barrel vaults intersect one another, the weight is carried on to the piers at their intersection and the thrust is transmitted to the outer cross walls; thus in the Roman reservoir at Baiae, known as the piscina ...
2. (Christianity / Ecclesiastical Terms) Ecclesiast a niche in the side wall of a chancel, in which the credence or piscina are set
3. (Fine Arts & Visual Arts / Architecture) Architect a small window or an opening in a wall ...
 See also: Church, Brick, House, Chapel, Vault
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