A Few Thoughts On the Interior Arrangement of Churches Being the Substance of
A Few Thoughts On the Interior Arrangement of Churches Being the Substance of
Thomas Hill Lowe
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"" Here the ordinary service, or Bllssa Catechumenormn^ was celebrated ; and here stood the ambo, which was sometimes called the B^^ooa avayvajaroov ; and, some- times, though more rarely, the pulpit or tribunal, from its being highly elevated, and ascended by steps. From this spot the Gospels and Epistles were read aloud ; and sometimes, for the convenience of being better heard, it seems to have been used, as our modern pulpits are, to preach from. Sermons, however, were generally addressed t...o the people from the B^^xa, or the steps of the altar, * and not from the ambo, which oc- cupied the place which is, or should be, occupied by the eagle in our Cathedral Churches. -f* In the time of • " Ut plurimum Episcopi in gradibus altarif? concionabantur. " — Vales, in Sonat. 1. 6. 5. t In Exeter Cathedral the eagle has been removed from its ancient and accustomed position, before the steps of the altar, and 12 Divine Service the men and women were kept separate, and were arranged on opposite sides of the nave ; the men, for the most part, occupying the right, or south side, and the women the north, as they still not un frequently do in some of our ancient rural Churches.
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