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/ RELIGIOUS RITUAL AND FUNERARY / PLACE OF WORSHIP
 

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CATHEDRAL (63)
The principal church of a diocese in which the cathedra or bishop's throne is to be found.
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CHAPEL (215)
A freestanding building, or a room or recess serving as a place of Christian worship in a church or other building. Use more specific type where known.
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CHURCH (355)
A building used for public Christian worship. Use more specific type where known.
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MINSTER (0)
A complex of buildings, often within an enclosure, housing a pre-Benedictine Reform secular religious community. Now commonly used to describe the main church within such a complex, which over time attained higher status.
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MOSQUE (0)
A moslem temple or place of worship.
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NONCONFORMIST MEETING HOUSE (0)
A building used for services by a nonconformist protestant sect, especially by Quakers and Presbyterians.
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PREACHING PIT (0)
A large, circular hollow, often with a platform and seating built into the sides, used for preaching.
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SUCCAH (0)
An ancillary building to a synagogue, used as a place of worship at the feast of the tabernacle.
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SYNAGOGUE (4)
A place of worship for Jewish people.
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TEMPLE (8)
Use for places of worship. For later landscape features use, eg. GARDEN TEMPLE.
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Taken from the Building Types Thesaurus, (NMR Monument Type Thesaurus). ©2001 English Heritage

 

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