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SEPULCHRE, EASTER

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Originally appearing in Volume V24, Page 656 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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SEPULCHRE, See also:EASTER , in See also:church See also:architecture an arched See also:recess, generally in the See also:north See also:wall of the See also:chancel, in which from See also:Good See also:Friday to Easter See also:day were deposited the crucifix and sacred elements in See also:commemoration of See also:Christ's entombment and resurrection. It was generally only a wooden erection, which was placed in a recess or on a See also:tomb. There are throughout See also:England many See also:fine examples in See also:stone, some of which belong to the Decorated See also:period, such as at Navenby and Heckington (1370) in See also:Lincolnshire, Sibthorpe and Hawton (1370) in See also:Nottinghamshire, Patrington in See also:Yorkshire, See also:Hampton in See also:Oxfordshire, Holcombe See also:Burnell in See also:Devonshire, and See also:Long Itchington and other churches in See also:Warwickshire.

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