sedile
[se-dahy-lee]
- one of the seats (usually three) on the south side of the chancel, often recessed, for the use of the officiating clergy.
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Origin of sedile
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Little survives of the original choir but some stalls and sedilia.
Records of Woodhall Spa and NeighbourhoodJ. Conway Walter
There are three sedilia, and the high altar seems to have been of marble.
Scottish Cathedrals and AbbeysDugald Butler and Herbert Story
The sedilia in the chancel seem to be coeval with that part of the church.
The Evolution Of An English TownGordon Home
Close to the sedilia is a piscina decorated in a similar manner.
The Evolution Of An English TownGordon Home
The Sedilia stand on the other side, in the third bay from the east.
sedilia
- (functioning as singular) the group of three seats, each called a sedile (sɛˈdaɪlɪ), often recessed, on the south side of a sanctuary where the celebrant and ministers sit at certain points during High Mass
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Word Origin
C18: from Latin, from sedīle a chair, from sedēre to sit
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