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A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge · 1890

Altar-tomb

Altar-Tomb, a monument built in the form of a stone altar, and sometimes surmounted by a canopy. A tomb of this character commemorates the poet Chaucer in Westminster Abbey.

A Concise Cyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Biblical, Biographical, Geographical, Historical, Practical and Theological, Elias Benjamin Sanford, editor (New York: Funk & Wagnalls, 1890). Public domain in the USA. Text from Oldpedia. From the Encyclosphere, the open network of encyclopedias run by the Knowledge Standards Foundation. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: articles our source ran together split apart; false headings joined back to their articles; duplicate articles merged; stray text from the page edges left out.