Tester
Also called a sounding board. Structure over a pulpit to direct sound forward.
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A canopy above a pulpit.
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TESTER A cover or canopy suspended over a tomb or a pulpit. The tester may have a purely ornamental purpose or - where positioned over a pulpit - may be used as a sounding board to magnify and direct the preacher's voice.
Tester:
The wooden framework atop a high post bed, for draping with fabric. Also called a canopy.
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tester - a flat canopy (especially one over a four-poster bed)
umbrella - a lightweight handheld collapsible canopy
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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.
rostrum and tester
In a catholic church, the pulpit and overhead canopy. The canopy helps project the priest's voice to the congregation.
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Half-testerA tomb-chest with effigies beneath a flat canopy (tester) attached to a wall, with columns on one side only.Half-timberingArchaic term for timber framing. Sometimes used for non-structural decorative timberwork.
[3] Its tester is quickly recognizable as a baldachin, serving its time-honoured function; the bedding might easily be replaced by a gilded throne.
The projecting member, usually molded and/or shaped, at the top of a bookcase, cabinet or tallboy, or above the tester of a bed.
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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: Canopy, Altar, Church, Tower, Nave
  
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