- Look up
parvis in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A
parvis or
parvise is the open
space in
front of and
around a
cathedral or church,
especially when...
- Cathedral. The
parvise is
accessed through a
marble façade
culminating in a
wrought iron ....
decorated with 10
bronze statues of saints. The
parvise is separated...
- Malmesbury, in the
Diocese of Bristol. The
remains still contain a fine
parvise (a room over the porch)
which holds some
examples of
books from the abbey...
- The
folklore is that an old
woman known as Elspeth, who
lived in the
parvise over the
north porch of the church,
first noticed the
blaze and alerted...
- the
Francis Trigge Chained Library. Such a room is
sometimes called a
parvise which spelt as
parvis normally means an open
space or
colonnade in front...
- this ritual) in
imitation of the
excited Jerusalemites. At the
church parvise, a house, or the town plaza,
children dressed as
angels scatter flowers...
-
Ambulacrum is an
architectural word that
denotes an atrium, courtyard, or
parvise in
front of a
basilica or
church that is
surrounded by
arcades or colonnades...
- bell
tower is 61
metres high. Pope John Paul II
celebrated m**** on the
parvise of the
shrine during his
visit to the
island of Gozo on 26 May 1990. On...
- Grantham, Lincolnshire,
England which was
founded in 1598.
Located in the
parvise, over the
south porch of St Wulfram's Church, it has been
claimed to be...
-
dating from the late 13th century, were
replaced in 1865 by the
present parvise.
These marble panels,
decorated with
carved animal figures and faces, were...
