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SEDILIA (the plural of See also: term given to the seats on the See also: south See also: side of the chancel near the altar for the use of the officiating priests
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They are generally three in number, for the See also: priest, deacon and sub-deacon
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The See also: custom of recessing them in the thickness of the See also: wall began about the end of the 12th century; some early examples consist only of See also: stone benches, and there is one instance of a single seat or arm-chair in stone at Lenham in Kent, thought by some to be a confessional
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The niches or recesses in which they are sunk are often richly decorated with canopies and subdivided with moulded shafts, pinnacles and tabernacle
See also: work; the seats are sometimes at different levels, the eastern being always the highest, and sometimes an additional niche is provided in which the See also: piscina is placed
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