Tour Scotland Photograph of Sedilia St Monans Church

Tour Scotland photograph of the Sedilia in the old church in St Monans, East Neuk of Fife, Scotland. The sedilia, the plural of Latin, sedile, seat, in ecclesiastical architecture, the term given to the seats (often) on the south side of the chancel near the altar for the use of the officiating priests. These rebated seats are found in the chancel of churches and monasteries and were for the use of the celebrant and their assistants. The seat is often set back into the main wall of the church itself.



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