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In the south wall a large aumbry or cupboard, in the thickness of the walls, may be seen; in this possibly the canons kept the books that they had brought from the library for study.— Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings
In the third bay is a holy water stoop, and in the fifth a large aumbry or recess, entered by a door; in this used to be kept the bier and lights used at funerals.— Bell's Cathedrals: Wimbourne Minster and Christchurch Priory A Short History of Their Foundation and a Description of Their Buildings
In the next chapel, that of the #Four Virgins#, there is nothing to show where the aumbry or the piscina was.— Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History ; Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See
Thomas and Edmund# has an arcade on the east wall similar to that in the chapel of S. Clement. The aumbry is on the north and the piscina on the south side of the position which the altar used to occupy The #Rood-Screen# at the entrance to the choir from the nave was erected in 1889, and is a memorial of Archdeacon Walker.— Bell's Cathedrals: Chichester (1901) A Short History ; Description Of Its Fabric With An Account Of The Diocese And See
Note the old font which was evidently at one time coloured; also the aumbry, piscina and sedile.— Seaward Sussex The South Downs from End to End

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