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Originally appearing in Volume V26, Page 324 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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TABERNACLE , as a See also:

general See also:term in See also:architecture, a See also:species of See also:niche or See also:recess in which an See also:image may be placed. In See also:Norman See also:work there are but few remains, and these generally over See also:door-ways. They are shallow and comparatively See also:plain, and the figures are often only in See also:low See also:relief, and not detached statues. In See also:Early See also:English work they are deeper, and instead of See also:simple See also:arches there is often a See also:canopy over the figure, which was placed on a small, low See also:pedestal. Later in the See also:style the heads of the See also:tabernacles became cusped, either as trefoils or cinquefoils, and they are often placed in pairs See also:side by side, or in ranges, as at See also:Wells See also:cathedral. Decorated tabernacles are still deeper and more ornamented, the heads are sometimes richly cusped and surmounted with crocketed gables, as at See also:York, or with projecting canopies, very much like the See also:arcade at See also:Lichfield. In this See also:case the under side of the canopy is carved to imitate groined ribs, and the figures stand either on high pedestals, or on corbels. Perpendicular tabernacles possess much the same features, but the work is generally more elaborate (see See also:CORBEL, CANOPY, NICHE, &c.). The word tabernacle is also often used for the receptacle for See also:relics, which was often made in the See also:form of a small See also:house or See also:church (see See also:SHRINE). The term " tabernacle work " is given, in architecture, to the richly sculptured See also:tracery, similar to that employed on the upper See also:part of a tabernacle, decorated with canopied niches which contain statues. The Eleanor crosses in See also:England are enriched with tabernacle work over the niches, as also the chapels of Bishops See also:Nicholas See also:West (1461–1533), and See also:John See also:Alcock (1430–1500) in See also:Ely cathedral, both dating from the beginning of the 16th See also:century.

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