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  2. Eagle lectern - Wikipedia

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    Eagle lecterns in stone were a well-established feature of large Romanesque pulpits in Italy. The carved marble eagle on the Pulpit in the Pisa Baptistery by Nicola Pisano (1260) is a famous example, and they also feature on his Siena Cathedral Pulpit (1268), and his son's at Sant' Andrea, Pistoia (Giovanni Pisano, 1301). These are projections ...

  3. Lectern - Wikipedia

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    Because the Torah scrolls are generally large, the central feature of the bimah in a synagogue is a table large enough to hold an open Torah along with a tikkun or Chumash (reference books used to check the reading). In some synagogues, this table may resemble a large lectern. The Hebrew term for this article of furniture is amud (Hebrew ...

  4. Pulpit - Wikipedia

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    The pulpit of the Notre-Dame de Revel in Revel, Haute-Garonne, France Pulpit at Blenduk Church in Semarang, Indonesia, with large sounding board and cloth antependium "Two-decker" pulpit in an abandoned Welsh chapel, with reading desk below 1870 Gothic Revival oak pulpit, Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland Ambo, in the modern Catholic sense, in Austria 19th-century wooden pulpit in Canterbury ...

  5. Dunkeld Lectern - Wikipedia

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    St Stephen's Church, St Albans, which, under the Church of England, has been the legal owner of the Dunkeld Lectern for over 400 years The Dunkeld Lectern , also known in Scotland as the Holyrood Bird , [ 1 ] [ 2 ] is a medieval brass eagle lectern .

  6. List of largest church buildings - Wikipedia

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    Until 2009, largest church in East Asia [citation needed] Sacred Heart Cathedral, Bendigo: 2,191 [citation needed] 3,350 4,000 + 1897-1977 Bendigo Australia: Catholic One of Australia's largest churches and the third tallest after St Patrick's Cathedral and St Paul's Cathedral. 75 metres (246 ft) long and has a ceiling height of 24 metres (79 ft).

  7. Antependium - Wikipedia

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    "Antependium" is the word used for elaborate fixed altar frontals, which, in large churches and especially in the Ottonian art of the Early Medieval period, were sometimes of gold studded with gems, enamels and ivories, and in other periods and churches often carved stone, painted wood panel, stucco, or other materials, such as azulejo tiling in Portugal.

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