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sedilia
/ ²õɛˈ»å²¹Éª±ôɪə /
noun
- functioning as singular the group of three seats, each called a sedile ( ²õɛˈ»å²¹Éª±ôɪ ), often recessed, on the south side of a sanctuary where the celebrant and ministers sit at certain points during High Mass
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Origin of sedilia1
Example Sentences
His pages are peppered with erudite information about north perpendicular windows, Norman towers, triple sedilia and rood-loft doorways, which he appeals to his readers to please "note" and "admire".
And oh, that rood-screen—early sixteenth—and those sedilia—in your Church over there!
The Dorchester example is a small boss in the groined ceiling of the sedilia of celebrants; that at Ewelme is a weather-worn parapet-ornament on the south of the choir; the carving at Farnsham is on a misericorde.
In a single group of sedilia all the architecture of a great cathedral may be seen in miniature, in arch, column, groined roof, boss, window-tracery, pinnacle, and finial, each part with its share of ornament, of grotesque.
On a capital in the sedilia of Dorchester Abbey is a curious compound which may be classed as a sphinx.
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