Church architecture quiz

Church architecture quiz

I don't know, the things I have to do for Sparky ::)............Well, I suppose we were all well looked after by Mother Hen in Jersey.

It'll probably be to no avail, as Wolfman and Clever DickSav will probably be in there first - and this is Elsie's subject too. So maybe if all else fails there'll be some "sloppy seconds" for the Senior Staff Sergeant. (Note how Global Moderators are now the S.S. ? ;D ;))


Fifteen questions on Church Architecture.

1. What is an Aumbry ?

2. On which side of the chancel is the Easter Sepulchrem normally ?

3. What is a Piscina ?

4. What are Sedilia ?

5. What exactly is a Squint ?

6. What is the Sacristy used for ?

7. What is a Pulpitum ?

8. What is a Triforium ?

9. What is a Clearstory ?

10. What is a Misericord ?

11. Where is the Presbytery ?

12. Where is the Reredos ?

13. What is a Lancet ?

14. What is a Parclose ?

15. What is a reticulated window ?

These are difficult, so 2pts for each one answered correctly. Good luck !

[Herr von Puebik]

2 The backside
3 a toilet
5 a very low toilet
9 part of an interior wall rising above the adjacent roof with windows admitting light

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

1. A Mexican greeting
7. Related to Deli Belly.
8. Three forums interlinked.
9. Ensuring both tales are the same before you and your mates get home.
10. The cord pulled by the missus when you get home late.
11. A food place for reporters.
12. This is the chant when Dick Stowe gets a good score 'Rer-e-dos that, he usually loses them'
13. A car normally found in the carpark or local hedge.
14. 1 over par

[barbelman]

1 A lickle cupboard
3 A font/basin thingy presumably from the Latin for fish but.....?
4 a seat
6 I remember the sacristy from my choirboy (!) days as a vestment room
7 a pulpit??
8 is it a 3 aisled church?
9 is a lickle seat
10 is where the vicar lives!!
13 is a very boring medical journal, a type of window or a wooden post in the church?
15 is a window with divided with stone tracery

Tony

[Sparky]

I'm not sure I can compete with the witty ::) replies posted above so will satisfy myself with the following anoraks answers (well almost ;D):-

1. Aumbry - Its original meaning was a cupboard and it has never lost this more general sense, but even in classical Latin it had of it acquired in addition the special signification of a cupboard of holding books (dark hole)

2. Easter Sepulchre - an arched recess generally in the north wall of the chancel (hidy hole)

3. Piscina - Liturgical structures used in baptisms or priestly ablutions (bathroom)

4. Sedilia - The name given to seats on the south side of the sanctuary, used by the officiating clergy during the liturgy (sleeping quarters)

5. Squint - a hole in a church wall or pillar allowing sight of the high altar from another altar for coordination of the elevation of the host during Holy Communion (spy hole)

6. Sacristy - A room in the church or attached thereto, where the vestments, church furnishings and the like, sacred vessels, and other treasures are kept, and where the clergy meet and vest for the various ecclesiastical functions (drinking hole)

7. Pulpitum – Latin for Pulpit - An elevated stand to preach on (drink up please)

8. Triforium - in church architecture, an arcaded gallery above the arches of the nave. (in a church) the wall at the side of the nave, choir, or transept, corresponding to the space between the vaulting or ceiling and the roof of an aisle, often having a blind arcade or an opening in a gallery. (Inn-on-the-park)

9. Clearstory - the nave of a Romanesque or Gothic church. (a jack ?)

10. Misericord - is small wooden shelf underneath folding seats in churches installed to provide some level of comfort for those standing during long periods of prayer. (camp bed)

11. Presbytery – the space in the eastern end of a church reserved for the higher clergy. (saloon bar)

12. Reredos - ornamented wall or screen that rises behind the high altar of a church, forming a background for it. (scoreboard)

13. Lancet - A sharp pointed arch in a building, mainly used in Early English architecture of the 13th-c. It may also refer to a tall and narrow pointed-arch window of the same period. (food serving hatch)

14. Parclose - Screen or railing used to enclose a chantry, tomb or chapel, in a church, and for the space thus enclosed. (BIOC barracade with results)

15. Reticulated Window – This does not appear to have any specific definition but rather a general term used for a ‘network’ or pattern that may have derived from (Masonry) work constructed with diamond-shaped stones, or square stones placed diagonally. It is more usually used in conjunction with a Tracery type window. The following excerpt from the Pesvner Architectural guide referring to St Martin in the Bull Ring may well be the source of many of your other questions too?
quote[The Dec style follows evidence discovered during the rebuilding: reticulated W window, petal forms in the belfry. Dec windows: reticulated in the transepts and the S aisle W, Geometrical shapes but with petals below in the great W window, a purer Geometrical E window, and a clerestory mixing Geometrical, intersecting and reticulated designs.]end quote (any ordinary window after Northants have left)

Back to bed to nurse my cold...cough...cough....splutter.....zzzzz :)

I shall score Herr van Puebik, Kp and Barbelman first, and then fellow-snuffler/ful-sufferer Sparky.

H/V/P scores one point for his one sensible answer, a correct definition to no. 9.

KP - well, all I can say is "BRING BACK FAZZA, I really miss him !!!"

Barbelman - good answers to 1) 6) and 15) - one point for each of those. And 3) Basin 4) Seat and 13) Window earn half a point each, as though not incorrect, they are not quite definitive enough. You also gain half a point bonus for the brave admission to being (like myself) a former chorister. ;D

Points so far:

1. Barbelman 5pts
2. H/V/P 1pt
3. KP big fat zero.

Good set of answers Sparky. But no bonuses for subtle witticisms (though they are more entertaining than KP's) - purely because I see religion as a serious subject and joking about it amounts to blasphemy !
So to mark you on what is undoubtedly a specialised subject,
1) correct but Tony already got the cigar.
2) correct for 1pt
3) correct addition to Tony's half-answer. (The liquids are taken away through pipes). 0.5pts
4) correct addition to Tony's half-answer. 0.5pts
5) correct - good definition for 1pt
6) correct, room for keeping vestments and vessels, but Tony got there first.
7) possibly can be used just as the Latin name for the pulpit, but the wider definition is a huge screen for enclosing the Quire and supporting the organ - a good example of which can be found in Exeter cathedral. 0.5 only.
8) correct - good definition for 1pt
9) H/V/P's definition was correct - an upper row of windows to admit light. also known as a clerestory.
10) correct - good definition for 1pt
11) correct - good definition for 1pt
12) correct - good definition for 1pt
13) Tony got half a point for window, but your description of an acutely-pointed arch forming a window is good enough for a whole point.
14) correct - good definition for 1pt
15) Tony earned a whole point for his definition, you have added enough extra conveying the intricate stone work in a net-like pattern, to earn 0.5pts. I make that 10 in all.

But hey, I've just remembered that I promised double points, so the final results are :

1. Sparky 20pts
2. Barbelman 10pts
3. Herr van Puebik 2pts

Well done, and I'm sure your best reward will be waiting for you in the after-life. :-*

[Kevin Pringle (R.I.P.)]

tommo said:

KP big fat zero.

Do you mind I resemble that remark :(

Ha Ha Sparky the sniffling geek ;D

[Sparky]

kpringle said:

Ha Ha Sparky the sniffling geek ;D

I heard that...sneeze....Mr Zero ;D