credence table

British  

noun

1. a small sideboard, originally one at which food was tasted for poison before serving

2. Christianity a small table or ledge on which the bread, wine, etc, are placed before being consecrated in the Eucharist

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credence table

Vincent had risen to fetch the cruets from the credence table.

From Abbe Mouret's Transgression by Émile Zola

At the east end are traces of an altar and credence table, and close by is a piscina.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant

In Elizabeth's time the communion table was moved into the middle of the chapel, and the credence table destroyed.

From History of the English People, Volume V Puritan England, 1603-1660 by John Richard Green

There was a stone altar in the best style, a credence table, a piscina, what looked like a tabernacle, and a couple of handsome brass candlesticks.

From Loss and Gain The Story of a Convert by John Henry Newman

In some churches there is a separate credence table.

From English Villages by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield