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aumbries

  • plural
    of aumbry.
    aumbry
    noun
    a recess in the wall of a church or a cupboard in the sacristy where sacred vessels, books, vestments, etc., are kept.

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His notes are profusely decorated with a rich array of rood screens, finial crockets, lavatories, aumbries, lecterns, lych sheds, albs, stoups, sedilia, credence tables, pixes, hagioscopes, baudekyns, and squenches.

From The Book-Hunter A New Edition, with a Memoir of the Author by John Hill Burton

On the west side are several large aumbries, in which, no doubt, the relics were kept.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Lichfield A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See by A. B. Clifton

The north aisle contains three aumbries and the south aisle has one, probably removed from elsewhere in the church.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé

In the third chamber was brought together the wealth of all the world, and in that place also were set the aumbries of Asenath.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Eugene Mason

Under the north transept is an early Norman apsidal crypt with aumbries in the walls.

From Bournemouth, Poole & Christchurch by E. W. Haslehust

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