_Piscina._--A basin attached to the wall near the altar of a church, where the priest washed his hands and rinsed the chalice. _Plate-Tracery._--Tracery which appears as if formed by piercing a flat surface with ornamental patterns. _Plinth._--The lowest division of the base of a column, or projecting face at the bottom of a wall. _Presbytery._--The part of a church where the high altar stands. _Reredos._--A screen at the back of an altar. _Rood-Loft._--A gallery over the screen separating the nave from the chancel, on which the great cross or _rood_ was fixed. _Sedilia._--The seats for the officiating clergy. _Soffit._--The under side of an arch, cornice, etc. _Spandrel._--The triangular space between arches. _Splay._--The expansion given to windows and other openings by slanting the sides. _Springing._--The point at which an arch unites with its support. _Squint._--An oblique opening in the wall of a church. _Stoup._--A vessel or stone basin formed in the wall, serving as a receptacle for holy water. _String-Course._--A horizontal moulding running along a wall. _Transom._--A horizontal cross-bar in a window. _Triforium._--A gallery in the wall over the arches which separates the body of the church from the aisles. _Tympanum._--The space above the horizontal opening of a doorway and the arch above; the space between an arch and the triangular drip-stone or hood-mould which surmounts it. INDEX Aberdeen, 443 Bangor, 426 Bath, 161 Beverley, 327 Brechin, 442 Bristol, 138 Canterbury, 68 Carlisle, 272 Chester, 248 Chichester, 96 Dunblane, 444 Dunkeld, 445 Durham, 283 Ely, 377 Exeter, 164 Glasgow, 439 Glossary of Architectural Terms, 450 Gloucester, 178 Hereford, 204 Iona, 441 Kirkwall, 448 Lichfield, 230 Lincoln, 337 Liverpool, 263 Llandaff, 429 Manchester, 264 Newcastle, 282 Norwich, 393 Oxford, 125 Peterborough, 360 Ripon, 297 Rochester, 57 Salisbury, 108 Southwell, 351 St. Alban's, 409 St. Andrew's, 446 St. Asaph's, 423 St. David's, 432 St. Giles', Edinburgh, 447 St. Paul's, 8 The Architecture of the Cathedrals of Great Britain, 1 Truro, 177 Wakefield, 333 Wells, 149 Westminster, 35 Winchester, 85 Worcester, 216 York, 309 * * * * * Transcriber's Notes Punctuation and spelling errors and inconsistent hyphenation have been corrected. Italic text is denoted by _underscore_ and bold text by =equal signs=.