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Altar

Altar. The table for the celebration of the Holy Communion, which

165 b c to commemorate the dedication of the new altar set up at the purification of the temple of Jerusalem

A niche near the altar in a church containing a small basin for rinsing altar

Any extension of a church behind the high altar as a chapel also in an apsidal church all the

standing free and supported on four columns covering the high altar or very rarely a secondary altar

The showing of the sacrament on the altar in order that it may receive the adoration of the

Reredos, an ornamental screen covering the wall at the altar, see Philpotts v. Boyd, (1876) LR 6 CP 435.

Luminare, a lamp or candle set burning on the altar of any church or chapel, for the maintenance whereof land

1st of August, to bring a live lamb to the altar. In Scotland they are said to wear lambs on this

or foldstool, a place at the south side of the altar, at which the sovereign kneels at his coronation.