In church architecture, sedilia are built-in or freestanding structures specially provided for seating the officiating clergy during Mass. Their forms, decoration, and positioning have symbolic liturg
A three-level sedilia and piscina (at left) recessed into the thickness of the wall; nave built around 1180, chancel re-built in C13, in St Mary's church, in Buriton, Hampshire, England. The seats are low and cold to sit on; the addition of four inches of cushion makes them comfortable.
13th-century early English piscina and sedilia, St. Mary's, North Stoke, West Sussex