hagioscope
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The visitor will notice the ancient font; also a hagioscope and holy water stoup.
From Wanderings in Wessex An Exploration of the Southern Realm from Itchen to Otter by Holmes, Edric
The name hagioscope has been used to describe these oblique openings.
From Our Homeland Churches and How to Study Them by Heath, Sidney
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 Haggard, Henry Rider
"Yes; but the change in them which you suggest would not fully meet the difficulty, even if a squint or hagioscope should also be provided."
From Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Field, Walter
The rest of the fabric has undergone restoration, though it retains a hagioscope and two piscinas.
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
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