ambry

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Below the hall is seen a small ambry or cupboard in the wall.

From The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 by Gladstone, William Henry

A large ambry adjoins the door in the outer wall.

From Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys by Butler, Dugald

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)

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.