CHAPTER I

OF A CHURCH AND ITS PARTS
Two-fold Meaning of the Word — Different Synonyms for the Terra — Form of a Church — Of the Tabernacle — The Foundation, how to be laid — To Point East, and Why — The Spiritual Church, how Built up — Of Cement — What Arms the Spiritual Church Employeth — Of the Materials of the Tabernacle — Of Shittim Wood — Analogy of a Church with the Human Body — Of what the Spiritual Church consisteth — Of its Foundations— Of the Walls— Of the Choir— Of Apses— Of the Cloister Court— Of the Towers— Of the Cock— Of the Pinnacles— Of the Windows — Of the Lattice Work — Of the Doors— Of the Piers — Of the Beams— Of the Roof— Of the Stalls— Of the Pulpit— Of the Rood Loft — Of the Hours— Of the Sanctuary— Of the Sacristy— Of the Roof Tiles— Of the Lights— Of the Crosses— Of the Cloister— Of the Bishop's Throne — Why we go together to Church — Of the Separa- tion of the Women from the Men — Of the Covering of Women's Heads — Of Speech in Church — Of Immunity for Malefactors — Why Churches may be rebuilt in other Places.