Hagioscope n. : An opening made in the interior walls of a cruciform church to afford a view of the altar to those in the transepts; -- called, in architecture, a squint.

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hagioscope, squint, church, the church, free encyclopedia, lepers, chapel, London, the nuns, Germany, Sweden, England, service, St. Clemens, rediscovered, St. Antonius, Granhult, history.

Defination from the web:
hagioscope (from Gr. ... In Georgsmarienhütte the hagioscope of church St. Johann which belonged to the former Benedictine convent Kloster Oesede, founded in the 12th ... In Sweden Bro Kyrka near Visby on Gotland has a cross shaped hagioscope. ...