A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian and Gothic architecture, illustrated by four hundred and forty woodcuts (1846)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford: J. H. Parker · leaf 203
PEW. the wainscoting next the cross passages was generally ornamented with panellings, tracery, small buttresses, &c. : opposite to the seat at the back of each division, or pew, a board was frequently fixed, considerably narrower, but in other respects exactly like the seat ; sometimes it was… … mode of fit- Headingtou, Oxfordshire. ting the naves of churches was certainly very general for a long time before the Reformation, but it was probably not universal ; it is difficult to ascertain when it was first introduced, but it is likely to have been partially used at an early period ; a few…
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