leper's squint

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• leper's squint — noun or leper window : a small window in the exterior wall of some medieval churches through which lepers are believed to have viewed the service being conducted at the altar …   Useful english dictionary

• leper window — noun see leper s squint …   Useful english dictionary

• Greensted Church — Greensted Church, from the SE corner. Greensted Church, in the small village of Greensted, near Chipping Ongar in Essex, England, is the oldest wooden church in the world[1], and probably the oldest wooden building in Europe still standing,… …   Wikipedia

• Hagioscope — A hagioscope (from Gr. άγιος , holy, and σκοπός , to see) or squint, in architecture, is an opening through the wall of a church in an oblique direction, to enable the worshippers in the transepts or other parts of the church, from which the… …   Wikipedia