A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1879)
Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford ; London : J. Parker · leaf 262
sfound, long enough for two or three persons. They arevery commonly placed at different levels, the eastern seatbeing a step the highest and the western the lowest;but sometimes, when three are used, the two westernseats are on the same level, a step below the other, andsometimes the two eastern… … Sedile, Lenham, Kent. with tabernacle-work, pinnacles, &c. Some ancient sediliaconsist of plain benchesformed of masses of ma-sonry projecting from thewall, and it is not impro-bable that such may haveonce existed in some of thechurches in which no tracesof these seats are now to befound. At…
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