hoir from which it is generally raised by several steps.

QUARRIES or
QUARRELS The small diamond, square or other the shaped panes used
in plain glazing.

QUATREFOIL The shape resembling four leaves formed in tracery or
panels by cusps.

QUOIN The external angle of a building, generally of ashlar.

REREDOS The wall or screen at the back of an altar, often
enriched with carving, niches, statues, etc.

ROOD-BEAM or
ROOD-LOFT The loft or beam which, previous to the Reformation,
supported the Great Rood, or Crucifix.

ROSE WINDOW A term often used to denote a circular window of
several lights.

ROTUNDA A term used to describe a church or other building
which is of circular formation both within and without.

SACRISTRY A room used in churches for storing the plate and
valuables.

SANCTUARY See Presbytery.

SEDILIA A seat or seats, generally canopied and situated on the
south side of the chancel and used in pre-Reformation
days by the officiating clergy during the pauses in the
mass.

SHAFT The part of a column or pillar between the capital and
the base.

SHRINE Often called the feretory. The place where relics were
deposited.

SOFFIT The word means literally a ceiling, but is generally
used to describe the flat under-surface of arches,
cornices, stairways, etc.

SPANDRELS The spaces between the arch of a doorway or window and
the rectangular mouldings over it. Early tracery
originated from the piercing of the spandrels of windows.

SPIRE The acutely pointed termination of towers, etc.,
originating by the elongation of the early pyramidal
roofs.

SPLAY The slanting or sloped surface of a window opening in the
thickness of the wall, also of doorways, etc.; the term
is also applied to bevels and other sloped surfaces.

SPRINGER See Voussoir.

SQUINT An oblique opening or slit in the wall of a church, for
the purpose of enabling persons in the aisles or
transepts to see the elevation of the Host at the High