ambry

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At the east end of the church, on the gospel side of the site of the high altar, there is a recess in the wall, forming an ambry of elegant form.

From Chronicles of Strathearn by Macdougall, W. B.

He opened a door of the ambry, pulled out a drawer, and, pressing some spring, revealed a narrow, secret shelf.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

In the N. aisle is an ambry, and in the S. aisle a sedile and two piscinæ, and on the N. side another ambry.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

The building is cruciform, of flint, dressed with Totternhoe and Caen stone, and has a square ambry, a very old piscina, and a double sedilia; the latter is E.E.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

There is a double Early English piscina in the south wall, and an ambry in the north.

From Notes and Queries, Number 71, March 8, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George