Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Furnishings and Equipment (hierarchy name)
4. Furnishings (hierarchy name)
5. furnishings (works)
6. [furnishings by form or function]
7. furniture
8. [furniture by form or function]
9. support furniture
10. stands (support objects)
11. [stands by function]

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Objects Facet
3. Components
4. components
5. components by specific context
6. furnishings components
7. furniture components
8. bookrests

Narrower term/s

• preaching chairs [NP]
• shtenders [NP]
• badalones

Anotations

Scope note:

Elevated stands with a sloping top and usually a ledge at the bottom of the slope designed to support a book or script in a convenient position for a reader standing before it. A lectern may be placed on a table or mounted on a pedestal. A lectern In a church is usually situated in the chancel, sometimes inside a rood screen or tribune.