The parvise chamber above this porch is not lighted except by the small cuttings in the form of a cross which pierce the wall. ❋ Hubert C. Corlette (N/A)
A few months before the Great Fire of London, in which old St. Paul's was consumed with its parvise and pillars, Dugdale wrote: "At St. Paul's each lawyer and serjeant at his pillar heard his client's cause and took notes thereof upon his knee, as they do at Guildhall at this day." ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The square battlemented tower with its octagonal lantern above is poorly executed, but otherwise the uncommon conception arrests attention and is worthy of praise: The parvise chamber over the porch, like many others, was for a long period the town school. ❋ Edric Holmes (N/A)
The central doorway must have been of still greater beauty; but the whole of the upper part of it is hidden by the porch and parvise inserted beneath the central arch. ❋ W.D. Sweeting (N/A)
Behind the font a small door and tiny staircase lead up to the parvise, where is stored a library that was given for the priest's use. ❋ Rosalind Northcote (N/A)
By way of preparation for his examination the sophist was required to be diligent in attending disputations in the parvise, and when he presented himself for his own ordeal he had to make oath that these exercises had been duly performed. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Over the porch is a room or parvise, very difficult of access and badly lighted. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
The parvise, or porch, may have been symbolical of the initial stage -- the early provisions of our universities are full of symbolism. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
It was at the parvise, or porch, of old St. Paul's, or at their allotted pillars, that Serjeants met their clients for consultation. ❋ Unknown (N/A)
Exclusive of the spires, and the central porch and parvise, the dates of which have been given previously, the whole is of the best and purest Early English style. ❋ W.D. Sweeting (N/A)
On the sides of the parvise over the porch of the parish church are the arms of Scrope, Conyers, and Aske; and in the chancel of this extremely interesting old building there can be seen a series of wall-paintings, some of which probably date from the reign of Henry III. ❋ Gordon Home (1923)
The church occupies a picturesque position, and contains, besides the Elizabethan brass to Lady Brooke, a _parvise_ chamber over the old porch. ❋ Gordon Home (1923)
The Cathedral is usually entered from the north-west through the beautiful parvise porch of Bishop Booth. ❋ Unknown (1906)
It consisted of a small _parvise_ or room added above at some time subsequent to the original foundation. ❋ Unknown (1903)
Countess of Hauterive's chill gaze from the parvise. ❋ Maurice Hewlett (1892)
The Casino in the midst is as big as the Vatican, which it strikingly resembles, and it stands perched on a terrace as vast as the parvise of St. Peter's, looking straight away over black cypress-tops into the shining vastness of the Campagna. ❋ Henry James (1879)
It was a pleasure to come out on the great parvise, where the red, white, and green of our Scots were the commonest colours, and where the air was less foul and noisome than in the narrow wynds. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
But my master had lain at the hostelry called L'Asne Roye, in the parvise, opposite to the cathedral, where also lay Jean d'Arc, the father of the Maid. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
Crane, '"pointing across the parvise to a tavern," for I keep a word to tell in your lug that few wot of, and that it will joy you to hear. ❋ Andrew Lang (1878)
The houses of the place are built of moor stone -- grey, venerable-looking, and substantial -- some with projecting porch and parvise room over, and granite-mullioned windows; the ancient church, built of granite, with a stout old steeple of the same material, its embattled porch and granite-groined vault springing from low columns with Norman-looking capitals, forming the sturdy centre of this ancient town clump. ❋ Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 (1867)
