hagioscope
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Why pore over them in this selfish manner all alone and at the dead of night when no one can possibly disturb you, or, since you have blocked the hagioscope, even see you?
From Stella Fregelius by Henry Rider Haggard
The name hagioscope has been used to describe these oblique openings.
From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Sidney Heath
The former was once the seat of a Benedictine priory founded in the reign of Henry I. The church has a hagioscope and a square Norman font.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
It has a church, built about 1250, with a gabled tower and with a hagioscope in the chancel.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Edric Holmes
The church, which is chiefly late Decorated, has a very good Norman doorway, and a most interesting hagioscope, resembling that of Landewednack, with the difference that the Cury window is a single light.
From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
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