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(Click on the question to read the answer.) Here are some pages to help with the National Curriculum Religious Education homework:

  • Question 1: What are the uses and location in a church of the following objects: font, pulpit, altar, chalice, lectern, banners, vestments?
  • Question 2: What are the different parts of a church building?
  • Question 2a: Why are some churches built in the cruciform shape, and why are more modern churches being built in other shapes for example circles?
  • Question 3: What are the following things in a church: a vestry, crossing, transept, sancturary and other artefacts in a church?
  • Question 4:
  • Why do Christians go to church?
  • Question 5: What are the uses and places of the reredos, stained glass windows, church bells, sanctuary, lamp, organ, tabernacle, bishop's chair, candles and steeple in a church?
  • Question 6: What are the uses of an organ, communion table and a communion rail?
  • Question 7: What is the East Window?
  • Baptism pages of St Mary's Church
  • Plan of a church


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