From the commencement of the thirteenth century up to the Reformation sedilia became a common appendage to a church, and the styles are easily distinguished by their peculiar architectonic features.
Norman sedilia also occur in the churches of Earls Barton, Northamptonshire, and of Wellingore, Lincolnshire.
There is a piscina and double sedilia in the chancel.
It contains sedilia and a piscina, and some carved bench ends.
This forms a receptacle for various curiosities, including several brasses, a stone cresset, a Roman lamp and a stone bearing a Scandinavian inscription, besides the piscina and sedilia that belong to the structure itself.
The sedilia in the chancel and the aumbry in the north transept should be seen.
The fine sedilia and piscina in the fourteenth-century chancel should be noticed, and also the well-proportioned porch that has within it a coffin slab bearing an incised cross.
The sedilia were most carefully restored under Sir Gilbert Scott.
The sedilia and double piscina on the south side are interesting.
In the chancel is a piscina of Early English date, together with a sedilia of the same period.
With a childish smile upon her lips, Alice Sedilia touched off the slow- match.
In the dreamy distance arose the gilded mausoleum of Lady Felicia Sedilia, who haunted that portion of Sedilia Manor known as "Stiff-uns Acre.
Everything in it is charming, especially the beautiful eastern window, the triple sedilia and the piscina; but the pulpit and altar rails are of the seventeenth century as is the great south window which once stood in Chichester Cathedral.
The arcades which divide these chapels from the choir are extraordinarily beautiful, as are the restored sedilia and piscina with their gables and pinnacles and lovely diaper work.
This great Norman church of St Nicholas with its partly fourteenth century nave, its clerestory, its fine chancel with sedilia and Easter sepulchre, and noble pinnacled tower is perhaps the greatest building in the Marsh.
Note the archaic Norman font and several interesting brasses, especially that of Thomas Harlyng, Canon of Chichester and rector here in 1420; also the restored sedilia and beautiful modern reredos.
Note the oak screen in the chancel; sedilia and piscina; also an Easter sepulchre.
Notice the sedilia and projecting piscina, and the tablet to the memory of the famous aeronaut, Coxwell, who died here in 1900.
It has a very fine Early English window; the sedilia should also be seen.
The first village, South Stoke, has an Early English church with sedilia and other details.
The western doorway in the entrance porch, of which there is an ancient holy-water stoup, is one of the most beautiful examples of Norman work in England, and the piscina and sedilia in the chancel are also very fine.
In the choir also are several sedilia with pointed foliated arches, and over the sacristry door on the south side a colossal foliated trefoil.
The canopied sedilia and double piscina on the south wall of the chancel are both beautiful specimens of early work--the stained glass in the former being the oldest in the building.
There are two sedilia and a piscina in the chancel, and two brasses, to John Dodyngton and Eleanor his wife (d.
Note the piscina, three sedilia and credence table in chancel; also the finely carved font of Ancaster stone, on marble pillars, presented by the children of the parish.
In the interior, the timber roof of the nave, the clustered columns, and the sedilia and piscina are excellent specimens of work of the decorated period.
It has heavy Norman and early English piers, and sedilia and piscina in the chancel with Norman enrichment.
The sedilia are adorned with modern sculptured figures, and the restoration has been accomplished with much care and taste.
The sediliaare thirteenth-century work, and were decorated with paintings.
The sedilia are Perpendicular, and an Early English piscina and aumbry are observable behind the altar.
Illustration: Sediliaand Tombs of Gervase and Stephen Alard, Winchelsea.
It seems a pity that the remains of the sedilia which lie elsewhere in the church cannot be placed together in position here--not "restored," but honestly pieced as well as may be done with care and patience.
The sedilia or stone seats still remain entire, and extend along the north, south, and west walls.
The choir walls, containing an elegant sedilia and piscina, remain standing to the height of 9 feet, and it is questioned whether the choir was ever finished during the restoration.
The design of the sediliaresembles that at St. Monans, Fife, and adjoining the sedilia is the piscina, the aperture of which is still visible.
In the sacristy there are a piscina and a locker, and in the south wall of the choir the remains of a triple beautifully carved sedilia and a piscina.
Probably there was another such figure at the eastern end of the same moulding, but this would have been cut away when the sedilia were inserted.
In the south wall are triple sediliawith Purbeck shafts and foliated heads; in the north wall is a square opening or squint.
The sill of the south window, near the altar, is low, so as to form a sedilia bench.
There is a pattern of green and dull red on the east wall of the chancel, and on the south wall is a very similar pattern, which enclosed four groups of figures, two on each side of the window over the sedilia bench.
When the bells again rang on the new parish church of Sloperton it was for the marriage of Sir Rupert Sedilia and his cousin, the only remaining members of the family.
In the dreamy distance arose the gilded mausoleum of Lady Felicia Sedilia, who haunted that portion of Sedilia Manor, known as "Stiff-uns Acre.
With a childish smile upon her lips, Alice Sedilia touched off the slow-match.
Under these sedilia a tomb was discovered during the excavations.
Another sphinx in the samesedilia is of the winged variety.
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.
On a capital in the sedilia of Dorchester Abbey is a curious compound which may be classed as a sphinx.
Opposite to the sedilia in the north wall is a large arch, within which the holy sepulchre was set up at Easter.
A tall, richly carved and traceried roodscreen, divides nave from chancel, which has a plain sedilia and piscina.
In the south chancel wall there is a handsome sedilia of Perpendicular date; and opposite to it a large, arched recess, where the Easter Sepulchre was displayed in pre-Reformation days.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sedilia" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
