Greetings I am new to the forum but not to the game, I've been through a couple of times now and noticed there is a statue just before you use the Lichs hand to open the doorway to the second level of the dungeon in spell hold it seems to be an alter of somekind and I was wondering if it had a use or was just an empty alter any feed back would be much appreciated.

Nope, just an empty altar.