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Definition of Parcloses
1. parclose [n] - See also: parclose
Lexicographical Neighbors of Parcloses
Literary usage of Parcloses
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1864)
"Admit these as facts, and there is evidently no occasion for throwing open the
parcloses, for the aisles would not be filled. They are not thrown open in ..."
2. The East Coast of England from the Thames to the Tweed: Descriptive of by Mackenzie Edward Charles Walcott (1861)
"S. Peter's Church, spacious and lofty, comprises an imposing west tower, chapels
in the nave, aisles with parcloses; a pulpit of cak, richly carved, ..."
3. English Church Furniture by John Charles Cox, Alfred Harvey (1908)
"They occur chiefly as chancel screens, but there are many parcloses. Open parcloses
are found in several of the great churches where the quire screens are ..."
4. The Archaeological Journal by British Archaeological Association (1909)
"... was sometimes enclosed.5 The wholesale destruction of these interesting
parcloses was one of the worst features of the nineteenth century restorations, ..."
5. George Edmund Street: Unpublished Notes and Reprinted Papers by George Edmund Street, Georgiana Goddard King (1916)
"The entrance to the choir is through the old rood-screen by doors on either side
of the altar, and by doors in the parcloses, reached by long flights of ..."
6. Norfolk Archaeology, Or, Miscellaneous Tracts Relating to the Antiquities of (1904)
"The chancel or quire aisles were screened off from the quire by parcloses or open
screens. At the west end of the quire was the rood loft, with the desks, ..."
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