Talk:Sedilia

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The first sentence refers to sedilia being on "the south side of an altar". Are (Catholic) churches always geographically oriented the same way? Also, in note below, is 'Sepukchre' a correct spelling?

-jiw  — Preceding unsigned comment added by Jwpat7 (talk • contribs) 00:33, 17 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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I have removed the picture of alleged sedilia at St Marys Church, Grendon, Northants because the photograph does not show sedilia.

There are sedilia at that church but they are on the other (south) side of the altar . The Victoria County History of Northamptonshire vol 4 describes them (p.251) as "good 15th century triple sedilia with crocketed ogee cinquefoil arches and plain jambs and dividing pieces, the seats are level".

The photo showed nothing like that. The item shown in the photo was described, on the same page, as "a chamfered arch recess, in which is a small plain altar-tomb" (Pevsner: Buildings of England (Northants) 2nd edn 1973 describes it as an Easter Sepukchre).

It would be good to have here a photograph of the actual sedilia in the church, which sounds as if it would be an excellent illustration for the article.

Waysider1925 (talk) 15:03, 1 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Also I recommend that the image captioned "A free-standing sedile with desk in Alsike Church in Sweden" should be removed. Its not a sedile at all but a prie dieu (a kneeler with arm rests). In any case, kneelers are never sat on but as the name suggests, knelt on. Thank you to whoever removes the image. — Preceding unsigned comment added by MCR1998 (talk • contribs) 00:50, 11 December 2018 (UTC)[reply]