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stall

In church architecture, an elevated seat in the choir or chancel of a cathedral or other church. It is wholly or partially enclosed by a high back and sides, and has projecting arms separating it from its neighbour; there is usually a ledge for books. Stalls are generally of wood, though sometimes of stone embellished with sculptured foliage and grotesques. In some cases the stall is covered with a canopy of tabernacle work.

Most of the stalls in English churches and chapter-houses date from pre-Reformation times and were intended for the use of the clergy, chapter, or monks. In cathedral and collegiate churches they are occupied by the canons and prebends. Sometimes there is a row of stalls for the choir, because they fulfil part of the duties of the monks, the chanting of the divine office.



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The first stall was a large square one, shut in behind with a wooden gate; the others were common stalls, good stalls, but not nearly so large; it had a low rack for hay and a low manger for corn; it was called a loose box, because the horse that was put into it was not tied up, but left loose, to do as he liked.
"Yes," said the Horse; "if any remains out of what I am now eating I will give it you for the sake of my own superior dignity, and if you will come when I reach my own stall in the evening, I will give you a little sack full of barley.
He had taken up a book from the stall, and there he stood, reading away, as hard as if he were in his elbow-chair, in his own study.
 
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