ule.

MISERERE A small bracket on the undersides of the seats of
stalls.

MOULDING A term generally applied to the contours given to angle
projections or hollows of arches, doors, windows, etc.

MULLION The dividing bars of stone or wood between the lights
of windows, or the openings of screens.

MUeNSTER has now lost its simple application.
(MONASTERY)

NAVE From _navis_, a ship, the main body of a church west
of the chancel.

NICHE An alcove or recess in a wall for holding a statue or
ornament.

OGEE A moulding or arch formed of a curve or curves somewhat
like the letter S, the curve of contra-flexure, part
being concave and part convex.

ORDERS In Gothic architecture, the receding mouldings of an
arch.

PARCLOSE The screen or railings protecting a monument or chantry.

PARVISE An open space or porch at the entrance to a church, and
often wrongly applied to the room over a church porch.

PATEN The small plate or salver used to hold the Consecrated
Bread in the celebration of the Eucharist.

PENDANT Ornaments which hang or _depend_ from a ceiling or roof.

PENTHOUSE A covering projecting over a door, window, etc., as a
protection from the weather.

PIER The masses or clusters of masonry between doors, windows,
etc.; the supports from which arches spring.

PILLAR A term frequently confounded with column, but differing
from it in not being subservient to the rules of
classical architecture, and in not of necessity
consisting of a single circular shaft.

PINNACLE A small turreted ornament tapering towards the top,
and used as a termination to many parts of Gothic
architecture.

PISCINA The stone basin or sink in the chancel used for
cleansing the communion vessels.

PLINTH The lower division of the base of a column, pier or wall.

POPPY-HEAD An ornament boldly carved on the tops of bench ends, etc.

PRESBYTERY A term sometimes used to include the whole of the choir,
but more often meant to refer to the eastern end of the
c