Church porch

The highly decorated two-storey porch of St Mary's, Yatton, England^[1][2]

A church porch is a room at a church's main entrance.

In Scandinavia the porch of a church is often called by names meaning weaponhouse. Visitors stored weapons there because of a prohibition against carrying weapons into the sanctuary, or into houses in general.^[3]

See also

• Lychgate

References

1. ^ Nikolaus Pevsner, The Buildings of England North Somerset and Bristol (Penguin, 1979), p. 352.
2. ^ Images of England (accessed 2009-09-03)
3. ^ Harrison, James A.; Sharp, Robert, eds. (January 2006). "Project Gutenberg's Beowulf". Project Gutenberg. http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext06/8bwlf10h.htm#note325. Retrieved 2007-08-14.  (Note l. 325. Cf. l. 397.)

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