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English: Cresset stone; used for illumination in churches. From an account of the monastic church at Durham, UK, written in 1593

" Also there is standinge in the south pillar of the Quire doore of the Lanthorne, in a corner of the said pillar, a four-squared STONN, which hath been finely wrought, in every square a large fine Image, whereon did stand a four- square stone above that, which had twelve cressetts wrought in that stone, which was filled with tallow, and everye night one of them was lighted, when the day was gone, and did burn to give light to the monks at midnight, when

they came to mattens."
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16-cup cresset stone from Calder Abbey, Cumberland.

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