sedilia - use in sentences

Converse of object

  • have: South wall: two splayed windows, that in sanctuary has sedilia below.
  • decorate: Inside the church, an ornately decorated sedilia survives, where a bench was enclosed under a single arch.

Preposition: in

  • wall: The piscina and sedilia in the south wall are of the same date and nearby is an inserted 14th-century window.

Adjective modifier

  • triple: The piscina and the triple sedilia are both 14th century.

Modifies a noun

  • seat: Right of the chancel are the 3 sedilia seats for the medieval mass, in which the priest, deacon and sub deacon sat.

Noun used with modifier

  • stone: In the sanctuary is a rather stark example of stone sedilia.
  • century: Fourteenth century sedilia spandrel, St Martin's, Thompson, Norfolk.

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