A concise glossary of terms used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic architecture (1905)
Parker, John Henry, · J. Parker and Co., · leaf 261
back of a window, isfound, 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… … 1— taw■ Sadile, 1 • ■ i . Kept, with tabernacle-work, pinnacles, &c. Some ancient sediliaconsist of plain benchesformed of masses of ma-sonry projecting from thewall t and it is not impro-bable that such may haveonce existed in some of thechurches in which no tracesof these seats are now to…
