ambry

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The building is cruciform, of flint, dressed with Totternhoe and Caen stone, and has a square ambry, a very old piscina, and a double sedilia; the latter is E.E.

From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)

Selred found the sacristan in the church, for it was the hour of matins, and between them they set what we had brought in the ambry which was built in the chancel wall.

From A King's Comrade A Story of Old Hereford by Whistler, Charles W. (Charles Watts)

Coming to a fine carved ambry, he hesitated, then stood still.

From Foes by Johnston, Mary

Below the hall is seen a small ambry or cupboard in the wall.

From The Hawarden Visitors' Hand-Book Revised Edition, 1890 by Gladstone, William Henry

Cicely Elliott looked around her in the darkening room: beside the ambry there hung a brush of feathers such as they used for the dusting of their indoor clothes.

From The Fifth Queen And How She Came to Court by Ford, Ford Madox