Sedilia
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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
12th-century sedile at Coates, West Sussex
15th-century piscina and sedilia, Lincluden Collegiate Church, Dumfries and Galloway
St Boniface's Church stands prominently in the village of Bunbury, Cheshire, England. It is recorded in the National Heritage List for England as a designated Grade I listed building. The church dates
St Boniface's Church, Bunbury, from the northwest
Tomb of Sir Hugh Calveley
Tomb of Sir George Beeston
The west gates