Achurch porch is a room-like structure at achurch's main entrance.[3] A porch protects from the weather to some extent. Some porches have an outer door, others a simple gate, and in some cases the outer opening is not closed in any way.
The porch atSt Wulfram's Church, Grantham, like many others of the period, has a room above the porch. It once provided lodging for the priest, but now houses theFrancis Trigge Chained Library. Such a room is sometimes called aparvise[4] which spelt asparvis normally means an open space or colonnade in front of a church entrance.
InScandinavia andGermany the porch of a church is often called by names meaningweaponhouse.[5] It used to be believed that visitors stored theirweapons there because of a prohibition against carrying weapons into thesanctuary, or into houses in general;[6] this is now considered apocryphal by most accepted sources, and the weaponhouse is considered more likely to have functioned as a guardroom or armoury to store weapons in case of need.[7]
name for room above church porch.
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