This was the case even in the narrow aisles of the twelfth and thirteenth century, many of which, like the north aisle of Great Easton church in Leicestershire, provided with a drain, aumbry, or a corbel for a statue, bear witness to the existence of a contemporary altar.
"The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church"
A. Hamilton Thompson
What is shown there is a simple parallelogram, with the usual high walls, in Transition-Norman style, with flat pilaster buttresses, two strings running round the walls, the upper one forming the dripstones of lancet windows, a corbel-table supporting the eaves-course, and a north-east priest's door.
"Vanishing England"
P. H. Ditchfield
Here and there the oak beams are carved, and grinning man or snarling monster regards you from corbel or boss.
"Hospital Sketches"
Robert Swain Peabody