Prie-dieu
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A prie-dieu is a type of prayer desk primarily intended for private devotional use, but which may also be found in churches. A similar form of chair in domestic furniture is called "prie-dieu" by anal
A fairly large, elaborately carved prie-dieu with a built-in altar that can be closed
Prie-dieu facing the casket of the US President John F. Kennedy in the East Room of the White House in 1963. The priests Robert Mohan and Gilbert Hartke are praying on two more to the right.
Misericord
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A misericord is a small wooden structure on the underside of a hinged folding seat in a church which, when the seat is folded up, is intended to act as a ledge to support a person leaning against it i
Misericord from the Charterhouse of Florence (Tuscany, Italy), depicting a mascaron (a decorative face)
With the seat lifted (as at left), the misericord provides a ledge to support the user.
St Botolph's Church, Boston, Lincolnshire: a school-master thrashing a pupil
A simple bracket-like misericord, Bechtolsheim, Germany