Faldstool
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Faldstool is a portable folding chair, used by a bishop when not occupying the throne in his own cathedral, or when officiating in a cathedral or church other than his own; hence any movable folding s
Faldstool displayed at Palazzo Vecchio in Florence, Italy
Reconstruction faldstool, folded and unfolded
Ecclesiastical faldstool, 1400s-1500s
Glastonbury chair
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Glastonbury chair is a nineteenth-century term for an earlier wooden chair, usually of oak, possibly based on a chair made for Richard Whiting, the last Abbot of Glastonbury, England. The Glastonbury
The original Glastonbury chair, in the Bishop's Palace, Wells
A reproduction chair, also in the Bishop's Palace, Wells
A similar British chair, oak, circa 1600, now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art