lectern

A reading desk with a slanted top used to hold a sacred text from which passages are read in a religious service.

A stand that serves as a support for the notes or books of a speaker.

A reading-desk in a church; especially, the desk from which the lessons are read at daily prayer.

A writing-desk or -table.

A choir desk, or reading desk, in some churches, from which the lections, or Scripture lessons, are chanted or read.