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Selby Abbey
Situated in the north aisle of the abbey and up a set of steps. This is what the plaque on the steps says.
The Leper ‘Squint’
Please climb the steps carefully.
Look down the Leper ‘Squint’ and see how leper’s we’re allowed to take their turn peering through the narrow 9 feet 6.5 inch (2886mm) long hole. During medieval times the ‘squint’ provided the only view the poor, disfigured victims on leprosy could have of the high Altar from outside the abbey.
They were not allowed to mix with the rest of the congregation for fear of spreading the loprosy disease.
The other end of the squint is now in the Latham Chapel.
The Latham Chapel is now the cafe area, just off the north transept.
Thank you for your visit and your comments, they are greatly appreciated.
Above the monks' stalls, on either side of the chancel are squints, which would have allowed a view of the high altar from the chapels in the original building. Because this was a Priory Church, the monks would have used the chancel and the laity would have used the side chapels, having no access to the chancel.
Exhibition Review - Hannah Levy and Michael Simpson:'Shall we sit, stand or kneel?' Marlborough Chelsea, New York till 3rd Dec 2016.
“Denied of tiresome fixations,
it bends my body into incongruous places."
- Drenched Co.
Comment: "The emptiness in Simpson's paintings and Levy's chromed metal and silicone (recently escaped from their “design purgatory”) made me think of my local surgery's consultation rooms. And aptly enough both artists disassemble contexts in search of powers in their wonted seats, laying them bare through slick bits of archaeology. Being apparently free from bondage and semantic connections, I felt a strange familiarity with these paintings and sculptures, due perhaps to their new potentials but also (funnily enough) to their inviolable relations to the body. Brilliant!" - JayZee
See marlboroughchelsea.com/chelsea/exhibitions/shall-we-sit-s...
See also www.soaked.space/2016/12/exhibition-review-hannah-levy-an...
See also www.woundsthatbind.com/2016/12/exhibition-review-hannah-l...
Caption: Image above: Installation view Hannah Levy© Michael Simpson© Marlborough Chelsea, New York 2016
Image courtesy of the artist and Marlborough Chelsea, New York. Photo credit: Daniel Peréz
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Above the monks' stalls, on either side of the chancel are squints, which would have allowed a view of the high altar from the chapels in the original building. Because this was a Priory Church, the monks would have used the chancel and the laity would have used the side chapels, having no access to the chancel.
A leper squint or hagioscope on the outside wall of Great Braxted All Saints Church (or Church of All Saints) which is located within the confines of the private Braxted Park Estate and its very long perimeter wall near the villages of Great and Little Braxted in the County of Essex (UK).
A leper squint is a hole in external wall of a church so that lepers could see the service or receive communion while outside and without coming into contact with the rest of the congregation.
All Saints Church at Great Braxted was founded in about 1115 and is a Grade II* listed building.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hagioscope
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Photograph taken by and copyright of my regular photostream contributor David and is posted here with very kind permission.
Today we visited St Guthlac Church in Passenham for their open day.
The church has quite a few interesting features. It has some medieval paintings that were discovered about 50 years ago.
It also has a 'leper squint' which is a hole in the wall used either to pass food to the lepers or they were able to get a glance of the service from the hole, without actually coming into the church.
Fortunately we were allowed in the church for a cup of tea and hot cross bun. We also came away with the rather nice Bakewell Tart.
This enabled worshippers who couldn't enter the holiest part of the church to have a view of the high altar.