Pulpit
A raised platform in a church, usually enclosed, where the minister or preacher stands to conduct the sermon.
Elaborate pulpits include on overhead canopy.
PulpitRaised and enclosed platform for the preaching of sermons. Three-decker: with reading desk below and clerk's desk below that. Two-decker: as above, minus the clerks' desk.
Pulpit The preaching platform. This is usually reached by a small flight of steps and is, effectively, an ornamental, lidless, box. It is usually at the front of the nave, just to the right or left of the steps leading to the chancel.
Pulpit - a raised stand from which the preacher addresses the congregation. Usually reached by steps or stairs, often covered by a carved canopy.
Reredos - a decorative screen behind the altar, usually highly carved.
PULPIT
From the Latin pulpitum meaning scaffold, platform or stage from which the priest would deliver the sermon
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In churches with a historic floor plan, there are two speakerÆs stands in the front of the church. The one on the left (as viewed by the congregation) is called the pulpit. It is used by clergy to read the gospel and preach the sermon.
Pulpit
A raised platform for preaching. A two-decker pulpit also incorporated a reading-desk, while a three-decker pulpit had a reading desk and also a parish clerk's desk.
Pulpit. Elevated platform or reading desk in a church (occasionally also located externally) from which a sermon is preached.
Reliquary. Urn or container for the relics of a saint or martyr.
PULPIT A raised and enclosed platform in a church from which a preacher delivers a sermon.
PURLIN Horizontal longitudinal timber in a roof structure.
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Pulpit
in church architecture, an elevated stand, surrounded by a parapet and often richly decorated, from which the preacher addresses the congregation.
Putto (pl. putti) ...
pulpit
rostrum
stage
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There were very few people upon Platform Number Twenty-one of Liverpool Street Station at a quarter to nine on the evening of April 2 - possibly because the platform in question is one of the most remote and least used ...
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This is the raised platform from which traditionally readings were given in church and the vicar would preach his sermon.
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The pulpit in the nave of St. Michael and Gudula Cathedral, Brussels, with a magnificently carved narrative in wood
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Type of pulpit usually found in mosques from which prayers, speeches and religious guidance are given.
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A canopy above a pulpit.
Synonyms: Sounding board Toranasearch for term
Toranas are a Jain architectural feature that mark the entrance to a temple.
ROSTRUM and TESTER
Pulpit and overhead canopy. The dove hanging from the canopy symbolizes the Holy Spirit or Holy Ghost. The canopy served as a sounding board or resonator, helping to project the priest's voice to the congregation.
Projecting sounding board over a pulpit or a hood or projection over an altar, niche statue etc.
Capital
The top, head or crowning feature of a column or pilaster. Very often ornately decorated.
rostrum and tester In a catholic church, the pulpit and overhead canopy. The canopy helps project the priest's voice to the congregation.
rinceau A symmetrical, swirling foliate ornament.
Also called a sounding board. Structure over a pulpit to direct sound forward.
Tracery
Ornamental stone ribs in the upper parts of window and in circular windows.
Canopy - A hood suspended or projected over a door, window, tomb, altar, pulpit, niche, etc.
Sant' Apolinare in Classe Ravenna Italy (5th C.)
Capital - The head or crowning feature of a column.
- As viewed by a worshipper seated among the congregation, there are two speaker's stands on either side of the front of the church: the one on the left or gospel side is called the pulpit, ...
This influence can indeed be aptly described as Gothicizing trends in the larger framework of the Italian proto-Renaissance that in sculpture began in 1260 with Nicola Pisano's marble pulpit in the Pisa Baptistry.
The minbar, a pulpit, stood near by. Structural elements were the arch and the dome; roofs were either flat or vaulted, and windows were small. The mosque had at least one tower, or minaret, from which the call to prayer was issued five times daily.
The term is also loosely applied to various other raised spaces in secular as well as ecclesiastical buildings, in the latter sometimes in the place of "pulpit," as in that of the refectory of St Martin des Champs at Paris.
Interior view #2 of choir
Interior view of crossing and choir
Interior view of crossing
Interior view of crossing from pulpit
Interior view of narthex
Interior view #1 of nave
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TESTER: a sounding board sometimes found above a pulpit or reader's desk. THIRD POINTED STYLE: another name for the Perpendicular style but used in these notes to refer especially to nineteenth century work using similar forms.
 See also: Architecture, Church, Nave, Roman, Choir
  
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