Leper window

Leper's window in Wales

A leper window was a window built low in the chancel wall of some medieval churches. It was usually iron barred and shuttered. Lepers stood outside and watched Mass through this window.

Leper Window Media

Squint in wall of north aisle chapel, St Nicholas's Church, Walcot, Lincolnshire, looking towards south-east, with a view of the high altar in the chancel beyond. To its right is a piscina supported by a carving of a man's head on the jamb of the wall.
The squint at the Church of the Blessed Virgin Mary, Compton Pauncefoot, Somerset
Hagioscope at Olavinlinna in Eastern Finland
The squint in the south transept of St. John the Baptist church at Symondsbury, Dorset, England. The north transept has a matching squint although currently not used because the church-organ occupies much of the north transept
The squint at St. Cyriac's church at Lacock, Wiltshire, England. September 2024.
A double squint in St Peter's Church at Great Haseley, Oxfordshire, England. March 2025.
A squint in the south aisle, at St. Mary the Virgin church at Henley On Thames, Oxfordshire, England. January 2025.
Hagioscope, old church of Saint-Maurice, Freyming-Merlebach, Moselle, France
The hagioscope of St. Clemens, Bad Iburg, Germany
St Bees Priory, Cumbria: Squint window in the wall of chapel built 1270–1300. Window is infilled, but outline is shown, and cross hatch shows wall and floor abutments.

Broderick, R. C. The Catholic Concise Encyclopedia. 1952. Simon & Schuster. p. 222.
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