It was placed just west of the feretory of S. Richard. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The entire feretory was overlaid with gold and crusted with gems. From Wordnik.com. [The Yoke A Romance of the Days when the Lord Redeemed the Children of Israel from the Bondage of Egypt] Reference
This seriously affected Chichester, as the fate of the feretory of S. Richard was involved by the mandate. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
Sir Robert Smirke in 1807 put up work which consisted chiefly of panelling, which was affixed to the easternmost wall of the feretory. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
The feretory no doubt had a reredos at this point, but what the type of this earlier arrangement may have been it is impossible exactly to tell. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History & Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See] Reference
The bones were enclosed in a splendid coffer with poles attached, and on solemn occasions this 'feretory,' besides being carried in procession, was sometimes placed under a tent in the fields. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric] Reference
Provision had evidently been made by him for keeping relics or treasures here, and, in his time, the back screen, as we now see it, and the reredos, were united together at the top, and covered with heavy stone slabs, so as to make a perfectly secure feretory. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Gloucester [2nd ed.] A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Espicopal See] Reference
William's royal robe, adorned with precious gems, and a feretory in the form of an altar, inclosing 300 relics of the saints, were bequeathed by him to the monastery; and Rufus transmitted them to Battle, where they were duly received on the 8th of the calends of November, 1088. From Wordnik.com. [Notes and Queries, Number 65, January 25, 1851] Reference
Eastward of the feretory the building is known by the name of the. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The fragments now in the feretory are often very fine, but are most of them sadly mutilated. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
At one time, before the erection of the reredos, the feretory must have been visible from the choir. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
This shrine, which stood in the feretory behind the high altar, was rifled and destroyed at the Reformation. From Wordnik.com. [The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock] Reference
The Abbot grew to call her chamber the feretory; the faithful gave alms, particularly the seamen from Wanmouth. From Wordnik.com. [The Forest Lovers] Reference
The north and south sides of the feretory are flanked by the chantries of Bishops Gardiner and Fox, into which it opens. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
It was originally encased in a wonderful feretory, made of pure gold and decorated with golden and jewelled images of kings and queens, of saints and angels. From Wordnik.com. [Westminster Abbey] Reference
The feretory is used as a receptacle for the carved work found at various dates about the cathedral, including portions of statuary once belonging to the great screen. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
Wykeham, the original statue, which was supposed to represent S. S.ithun, having been removed to the feretory when the west front was restored in 1860 at a cost of £3000. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
A moment's silence, before all the voices, gathering into one harmony, sent the last versicle ringing through the arches of the choir, and the springing tracery of the feretory, and of the Lady Chapel beyond. From Wordnik.com. [The Case of Richard Meynell] Reference
The feretory is without internal decoration, but the exterior of the east wall is adorned with nine rich Decorated tabernacles, with the yet legible names of saints and king who once occupied the eighteen pedestals within them. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
The sovereign himself laid violent hands upon the treasures presented by his pious forefathers in honour of St. Edward, and the saint's body must surely have turned in its coffin when, to save it from indignity, the monks were obliged to lift it from the feretory and hide it beneath the ground. From Wordnik.com. [Westminster Abbey] Reference
Reformation, when his costly shrine was taken from the feretory, where it stood so long, and destroyed. ". From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
As one passes beyond the feretory through the retro-choir, the #Chantry of William Waynflete# stands to the north of the central alley. From Wordnik.com. [Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See] Reference
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