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Chancel seats
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sedilia
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n. (context obsolete English) A series of seats, often recessed into the wall, on the south side of the chancel or choir for the use of officiating clergy.
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Sedilia \Se*dil"i*a\, n. pl.; sing. Sedile . [L. sedile a seat.] (Arch.) Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service. --Hook.
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In ecclesiastical architecture , sedilia (the plural of Lat. sedile , seat) are seats, usually made of stone, found on the liturgical south side of an altar , often in the chancel , for use during Mass for the officiating priest and his assistants, the ...