Thread by @DrJACameron

Can I sell off my English sedilia image catalogue as NFTs

view you are me c.2012 starting the umpteenth attribute assignment of the whole catalogue with Bedfordshire - Biggleswade. somewhere I've never been but I know you go through it on the train to Cambridge. from Flickr, Derek N Jones.

Bidding begins at one cryptobuck

ok nothing for that. what about Bedfordshire - Blunham, which has some streaky-bacon 17thc alabaster mon bunged over the piscina. the photo is a bit dutch and is by cambridge lad1 and was taken 29/8/2011 on an Olympus X300. open at a shibe-credit.

ah the ever-present Rex Harris took this of these emblazoned with Abbot Wheathampstead of St Albans' arms at Luton in 2015. I actually got outside it in summer 2019 but place was like a low-church fortress. bad vibes. one cybercoin

oh look here's my first one. Milton Ernest, Beds in July 2017.

A rebuilt Dec chancel by Butterfield with a drop sill with a bit of old masonry in that angle piscina.

FIFTY QUID

are you bored yet? well. imagine doing this for several hundred more of these bloody things

(Odell, Facebook, Phillip Marshall; Sandy, church website; Sharnbrook chancel and fancy set in S aisle, me, 2017, obvs not the ones I used at the time)

I did actually burn all my PhD files to CD so I do have the original images. haha a CD. funny how optical media barely lasted twenty years but sedilia lasted best part of four hundred

this is the rest of Bedfordshire: Turvey (church site), Wymington (Facebook again, 2017), Yelden (english-church-architecture.net). I had loads of missing ones in this county. sure I could fill the gaps in more now Googling a few years later you know, dont really care anymore sorry

for a treat. here is Berkshire. ahh Avington. you wont believe how much time I spent deliberating over this hole in a probably once-vaulted building possibly commissioned by Roger of Sarum c.1130s. you see it's behind the vault respond so it cant be retrofitted ahhh

look at these wide boys. Brightwell-cum-Sotwell. dont really remember going here in 2017.

these were Buckland and Childrey by me in August 2017.

the amazing phenomenon of monolithic masonry bench ends that we can't trust the context of at Compton Beauchamp captured by Oxfordshire Churches on flickr

Eaton Hastings by Rex Harris again.squint and you might see it. moving on. why am i doing this to myself

Faringdon, these ridiculous 3rd quarter 13th things stuck into a sensible early 13thc lancet chancel. Yes I should've taken the plate and snuffer out of shot. terrible. I actually got a shot of this published in a real book

this oblique shot of Fyfield by Mr Rex was all I had to go off. I guess the yellow-ish columns are all brand-new and something was supposed to interface with those ferrously-red arches.

Harwell by Eric Hardy from flickr. faces! E.E. piscina with Dec ogival sedilia!? wow

this was the best pic I could ever get of St Mary, Reading, bet you could do better now. in fact let's have a go.

ok not at a superficial go at it

Shottesbrooke, I got here in 2017 crashing the Sunday service I think. curvy backs, very nice. collegiate church dont you know

Sparsholt, look at these knobbly old lads. great church. loads of good'uns around here actually

Stanford-in-the-Vale, drop-sill but hmmm... distracted by the two-storey piscina thing Im not allowed to talk about because my subject is artificially restricted by a retrospectively perceived ecclesiological genre

Steventon. Well Mr Rex didnt take the plate off either. look a bit cosy yet precarious.

Uffington is such a barnstormer been there multiple times. actually have some drone footage of it which I really ought to just edit down for Twitter if nothing else, after like, coming on to 3 years. though we all get a year off at the mo right

Warfield, man, slipping in here 2017 between evangelical services was a real bugger but, it's important for having both these extraordinarily lavish c.1300 sedilia but also they interfaced with a reredos, rebuilt by G.G. Scott, slightly in front of the E wall, important evidence.

this by ROBERTFROST1960 on Flickr was all I had for Welford. many mouldings

and finally, a nice day for a White Waltham. it's not far from Warfield so managed to get in. not sure if the sedilia is real medieval but the double piscina is. do you see why this was a bad PhD topic now

hello another day it is time for another county of sedilia. here is Aston ClinTON. I actually saw this as late as 2019!! at least partly genuine late 14thc. no, my tripod isnt straight.

oh it also has a S aisle one too, with a load of rubbish on it I clearly wasn't motivated to remove

ah Chetwode. this was an Austin Priory so rubbish it was wound down in 1460. the sedilia were knocked through for a priest's door to now private land which I was valiant enough to trespass for a picture of.

also weird interlacing mouldings, and glass displayed at Age of Chivalry

big chonkers at Clifton Raynes by Chris Droffats. yeah those uncarved stops, you see them a lot around various south Midlands sites. bit of a mystery. maybe they were painted? the get-out clause for any art historian

i was pretty sure Drayton Beauchamp's niches weren't big enough to sit in but I never got there so I never got rid of this blurry capture of a Conway photo. there was a time you weren't supposed to mass photo in the Conway. oh well whatever. Soviet spy stuff

Chris Droffats comes through for Emberton. These have shields with symbols of the passion on although im pretty sure the blazon is Victorian. dunno, i never went. I have a very boring chapter on 15thc heraldry and how tentatively it was used on sedilia if you want

so Great Horwood by R~M~P from flickr. I did actually go here myself to see all the freestanding bits are indeed Victorian, but the springings are ok. but my overviews kinda got blown out by the window.

proof

Hambleden by former resident of this parish (I mean Twitter, he used it briefly but backed out alas) Vitraerum. I always wondered if the polychromy was real but I never found any evidence it was.

a sad christmas tree if there ever was one. taken 1/12/2008 apparently

Hanslope by gavnosis from flickr. yeah this sort of thing was a ball wasn't it

Iver. stuck with the Conway for this. whatever. people knew how to take photos of churches back in them days. not sure what they got paid for it

Langley Marish from the church website. look at those foliate spandrels. lovely stuff

Lee. or The Lee. this. is it a sedile? I dont know it was taken by Eric Hardy and uploaded to flickr. its not like im an expert on this or anything but judging by that chair you could probably fit an arse in there

Lillingstone Dayrell. well this is a terrible montage but gives you an idea, I dont know it's a weirdly cramped chancel full of mons, god knows how it was meant to work.

thank you again Eric Hardy for Lillingstone Lovell S chapel we love it and the little window where you can keep an eye on whether the ablutions are draining properly or you need to get the stick out to unblock the drains this afternoon

Maids Moreton. sedilia here I think were retrofitted into a drop-sill c.1520s and the Last Supper wall painting is co-eval with them. all a bit bizarre really. needs looking at (especially since Christ is in the middle and the celebrant almost certainly always sits E in England)

Middleton. Middelton Kaynes!!! I walked here after a conference at the Open University campus. its a really interesting church. then I had a Snake Plissken adventure trying to get to MKC.

Newport Pagnell s aisle from the church flickr account. please do click on this and look at it because I keep seeing more weird stuff and cant work out what's going on

North Marston by norfolkboy1. hey they look a bit like Maids Marston dont they. this looks like this. welcome to art history

Norfolkboy1 also lent this pic of the rather rickety Dec pair at Preston Bissett. look at those miniature vaults.

Prince Risborough from Wikimedia commons by user Waysider83.

I've always wanted to go here, but everytime I've been near I can't summon up the energy to drive into Princes Risborough because it's an actual town and like High Wycombe but worse.

Sherington. yeah i got this off the church website. well it's enough really isn't it

St Leonards. that's the name of the settlement. if that's a seat why is it only a little bit below the piscina drain. but yeah you could clearly fit an ass in there.

norfolkboy1 again

stewkley, weird bench end thing that is dubious evidence for anything. been here three times now. once in ordinary time, once in percy pig time

just going to dump Twyford (norfolkboy1), Upper Winchendon (CRSBI.ac.uk), Wavendon (vickyjoynson) and Whitchurch (geograph.org.uk John Salmon) because like whatever. see you tomorrow. will do all of these as long as it doesn't haemorrhage me followers

hello it is back to my sedilia poasting: Cambridgeshire, a county I have had a fair bash at visiting every medieval church of, before The Incident anyway.

Bassingbourn, I was here travelling between London and Cambridge in July 2019. Enormous late Dec chancel. Clunch.

Borough Green, off the church site, bit grim. what can I say. looks like a 1960s crime scene

Bottisham, my pics 2017 (so way too late to have anything to do with my thesis, which was submitted Jan 2015). derpy things in perp chancel, possibly reused elements from earlier building, and fancier set in swanky continuous verticals proto-perp Dec nave

Bourn. I guess I've never been here and this was taken by @megbernstein. it does look dark enough for half 5 on a november evening I guess.

Buckden, geograph.org.uk (does anyone still use that? it's v web 1.0) by Richard Croft. Yeah great it's E.E. I suppose. next slide please

Burwell, ah yes I've been here a couple times, the Reginald Ely (of King's College first phase), 1439x67. I wish it didn't have the greeny glass that makes the chancel feel like a toilet though. doesn't make a big deal of the sedilia though, at least with the surviving masonry

Cambridge itself I've spent a fair few days in. Priory of St Radegund (Jesus College chapel), St Bene't, St Mary (the great), and St Peter-without-Trumpington Gate (Little St Mary since Peterhouse)

and of course Michaelhouse college chapel

Caxton, by the exquisitely-named flickr user ndrwfgg. such carelessly placed cushions on that bit of a bench thing.

oh cherry hinton. you normative type you. I used this as my frontispiece image but if you look middle right over the capital there's a smudge on the lens. lol

my image of Chesterton was a Conway snap but I did go in here quickly 2018. seems they've changed a bit since then

Cheveley by the omnipresent jmc4 - church explorer. classic perp single niche we dont care about your triple-seat genre.

Comberton, I have another pic of in the series but I did go here in Sept 2019. in fact this is the church where I dropped my camera in the toilet and started its broken state.

at least I remember, though.

oh I saw Cottenham too 2018 and never updated my database. I went in the church the year before and the chancel was completely cut off. ah well. anyway. perp

ok Duxford, this is by John Salmon, but I have parked outside here. it's right next to a railway station so I couldn't park and pop in for even a minute. it was the day the temperature hit 40°. my phone overheated shortly afterwards

Elsworth, almost forgot to check I went here. but I did, September 2019. chonky Dec, nice.

I suppose these count as sedilia. I have a lot of pictures of these

Fordham is such a disappointing church. I revisited it to take this picture and im not convinced they have anything to do with anything medieval

Gamlingay filled in by jmc4 - church explorer. perky little number

Grantchester, ah well, was supposed to write a paper around this, but my brain collapsed. sorry

Great Shelford, Harlton, Hauxton, Isleham. all me. yeah i dont know why I got to visit so many buildings in Cambridgeshire. weird really

Milton. Conway. you might care to connect these to Bourn upthread because they are very similar and im not sure I ever did.

Soham, Ian Jessiman, 1950s, me 2018. at least his tripod was straight.

Swaffham Bulbeck.

SWAFFHAM BULBECK

Swavesey has two sets I shot in 2018 and never bothered to update but here they are for the first time ever. 10 quid each. get on the sediliachain

Teversham. this was from 2013. problem with sedilia by definition they have a S window above them. nightmare to shoot really.

and finally Whittlesford and Willingham. man I really have been to a lot of Cambridgeshire haven't I

hello it's Cheshire time-shouldn't take long.
Acton I've been to a few times, the sedilia seem to be 3rd quarter 14thc proto-Perp destroyed when the interior was cut back for slightly dodgy wall-arcades, usually associated with Sir William Mainwaring (d.1399) but possibly later

Astbury S chapel, pre-Dec sedile. bugger to get in here although it really should be open more. I went here before Sunday service on my way to Leek 2016. they were a bit bewildered why I wanted a pic of this in particular. fair enough.

Bunbury, collegiate church financed by Sir Hugh Calvely 1380s, although the sedilia and chancel are earlier. been here a few times as well

The Abbey of St Werburgh, Chester, has more sets of sedilia than any other building! Although not sure any of the Lady Chapel one is real after Scott went balls deep restoring that bit

Frodsham, sedile or cut down sedilia? Or credence shelf? who knows. def new masonry coming in from S arcade to the W (right)

Malpas chancel and S aisle, 14thc with late 15thc window zone above. yeah the screen in the latter I guess is late medieval so it would seem the quartodecimo Brereton chapel didn't care about the sedilia either

ah, Mobberley. nice church, in millionaire area, should be open more. been here before but lucked out in 2018 piggybacking a funeral after I'd stayed in Manchester after a gig. was it Cannibal Corpse? *checks concerts database*

yes it was after Cannibal Corpse. nice

Nantwich. more collegiate fancy stuff. stayed near here inside a giant wooden owl in last normal year (2019). didnt really get a better pic of the sedilia though

and finally Stockport. only got here in 2018. the chancel is a mid 14thc corker of north-west midlands Dec. and perhaps surprisingly that's it for Cheshire, and yes, these were all my pics for perhaps the only time

The opposite for Cornwall - a county I have NEVER been to, partly because it has very few sedilia. Here is the Dec churchyard chapel of Thomas Becket, Bodmin, by wilfy2007 off flickr. Some of these flickr ones might've been purged now I realise.

Cardinham, off the Cornwall Historic Churches Trust website. yep, those are classic sedilia. that's all I needed really.

A picture of Gulval's Victorian repaint of the barrel ceiling by alan_godber allows me to spy a cheeky sedilia at the end of the S arcade.

North Hill, taken from britishlistedbuildings.co.uk and credited to the excellently-named Ken Ripper. not sure what those banners are about. a park ranger with a putter and a fisherman in hot pants?

this was all I had of St Ive (not to be confused with St Ives, Cornwall), from 1853. I mean still, cracking bit of second pointed isn't it. In a way this is my photo because this is actually from an original copy of the journal in the Ants, London, taken 12/12/2012, 15:27

Andrew Budge who was working on collegiate churches, sent me these of St Michael Penkevil transepts: was working off engravings otherwise. Prob fanciest build in pre-Perp Cornwall due to its status (apart from priories of Bodmin, Launceston, St Germans and maybe Tywardreath)

oh wow that's it for Cornwall. merciful as I can barely be bothered with doing anything today. County Durham looks like an easy ride too so look forward to that tomorrow

Came across from last year this thinking what the fanciest churches in Cornwall were before perp and Truro. yes it's too long, but blame king Henry for flagging up too many monasteries as possible heads of new dioceses then letting them get pawned off

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ah sod it let's do County Durham now. Chester-le-Street, flash-drenched pic from just over ten years ago(!) now. tried to get in March 2019, no dice. what a spire though. misses Earth 3D by mere metres annoyingly

Darlington, rammed in generic 3rd quarter 14thc set (possibly with emblem of prebendary Henry de Ingleby in the shields, never really worked that out) to the extraordinary early E.E. chancel. didn't really see Darlington properly till 2018. outstanding building

Durham Cathedral, well, struggled with the photo ban at the time, but got this in 2019 of the ensemble with the Neville screen, 1380s, in early 13th elevation over original apse. Conway of N side identical set

spent loads of time googling to find out what the rare timber sedilia described by Pevsner as "flamboyant" at St Oswald Durham were on my PhD, but remained unknown to me. when I finally got there 2016 I declared them pretty much entirely legit.

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Egglescliffe, also visited just after my PhD. well i mean it would've helped if I could drive during my PhD wouldn't it. no want of trying! anyway perp, interesting relationship with the door huh

Finchale Priory, essentially holiday camp for Benedictine monks of Durham, the late medieval removal of the aisles also seems to have ended up skying the sedilia (2019)

possible set at Richmond castle chapel, uploaded to flickr by socorro66. i should really have been in here because it is a damned impressive keep alas I was biased against castles sorry

SOUTH CHURCH / ST ANDREW AUCKLAND!!! (for the longest time the double names confused me). A Jenkins 1000 church, but horribly inaccessible. stopped here at least three times, absolutely no way in. disgrace really. so all I have is this Conway pic with the radiator in front

Staindrop chancel and S aisle. I took these in 2018, before I'd visited with a point-n-click and my pics were terrible and I was relying on Conway pics really. good church overall

finally for Co. Durham, West Boldon. no idea where this is, not looking now, pic by Dave MMXIII. oh look it's three niches surmounted by arches and separated with shafts

oh man I have to do this again don't I. oh well. Cumbria shouldn't take long. here's the very fancy Cartmel Priory sedilia cut into by my MA dissertation. look later than the arcades really. not sure if I've thought about that. and I did a video about this place.

and the 1320 or 30s (I forget what I concluded) "Town Choir" [i.e. Cartmel parish church] behind with its nodding ogee double set. is that a face?

Furness Abbey's magnificent late perp set added to the 12thc presbytery, oh like, late 15thc, probably. I took rubbish photos in 2008(!) just before a massive steel stabilisation frame was put in there that I guess is still there now. this is the best pic I managed 10 years later

also the capella extra muros at Furness which I at least got some better pictures of in 2018. man I remember sitting the car outside of this having my sandwiches and the radio was all Dominic Raab Brexit secretary and Jermannbly Cobbson. how time flies.

oh man 2018 I went all the way back to Greystoke since 2010 and this was best pic I took of the sedilia? Shade.

I think I'm far enough removed from those early videos to do a drunken commentary on them now. fuckit watch this space.

kirkbampton. well. there you go. this is pretty exceptional architecture for Cumbria tbh

Kirkby Stephen however is a church apart round here. you get stuck here sometimes at traffic lights after crossing the Pennines from Barnard Castle heading for the M6. early skeuomorphic gables I guess.

Long Marton is like the only Dec chancel in Cumbria. and it has these kinda rubs double dec sedilia with pointed trefoil spandrels that look like someone's been told about them or maybe saw them once.

wow that's it. I had missing sets at Calder Abbey (private) and Ousby.

y'all ready for DERBYSHIRE!?
I CAN'T HEAR YOU?!
ok Ashbourne. huge chancel. no i I dont know why the piscina is down there. I think that candlestick is too heavy to safely move because I didn't move it in 2015 or 17.

Bakewell. wonky trefoil on the double piscina lol. love how they even seemed to carve it between two pieces of stone too

Boulton. I found these totally by accident when circling Derby in December 2018 to go see Wolfsbane and also a carol service in the cathedral. You will see why they are potentially significant shortly.

impossible to tell if they're medieval masonry with that render, but they match a local group: like Breadsall. A terribly jealously-kept church that I was refused entry to as a PhD student, I went in briefly during a baptism 2018, it was locked right afterwards. pic by Rob Howl.

so I did bomb in the morning after Wolfsbane and take this of the famous alabaster Pieta. but the time some jobsworth wouldn't let me in 2012 was one of the worst parts of my PhD. incredibly frustrating. Left it out my spires comparison just because of this even though it's in 3D

Chaddesden was made collegiate 1357, which seems to go with its highly-unusual sedilia in the N, S aisle and chancel. although the chancel set is probably entirely Victorian. Taken 2012 when photogram model wouldve freaked my nut out

Chelmorton. Revisited here 2018. The motifs of the sedilia match the extremely unusual stone dado of the rood screen. probably should've made more of that

Church Broughton, keep meaning to revisit here for some reason, but last and only time I visited was 2012.

Crich. Yes not been since 2012. Funny though, once I confused it with Crick (Northamptonshire) and very nearly went the wrong way up the M1.

Dronfield, this is a super church, visited in 2018, it's in my spires thing if I ever finish it, massive chancel, some of the fanciest sedilia outside of Lincs really.

Egginton, I last went here... this August!! but it wasn't open then so the sedile picture is from 2012.

oh there's one in Egginton's S aisle too. forgot about that. well, not worth deleting and redoing really.

egg like a bird's egg

Hathersage, 2015. Yes I have done a lot of Derbyshire. and yes I have done a lot so far overall haven't I. I am also surprised.

Hope. I have been here but it wasn't open. the chancel is all 19thc and the sedilia are reset and the notice wasn't very encouraging, unless it was Saturday morning (it wasn't)

So Horsley, 2012. As you see these look a lot like Breadsall. Would've been nice to measure and compare them but I couldn't because they wouldn't give me the key whatever I said (and I couldn't drive back then so couldn't go back). so alas. lady at Horsley was really nice though.

Ilkeston. got in here again 2018 but your mileage may vary. also part with a medieval stone screen! interesting really. though I did inspect the hell out of that screen and it is a bit sus what is supposed to be medieval about it

I think I might have lucked out on Kirk Hallam in 2012. it was firmly locked 2018. haha the sedilia are buried

Kirk Langley, 2012. The window was blowing out the exposure that's why my hand was there. man there are so many classic medieval sedilia in Derbyshire. crazy really. it's such a good church county.

See also Longford. there's kind of a Dec explosion in the north-west Midlands 3rd quarter of the 14thc no one ever talks about. or at least publishes their talkings about.

Mackworth. well, if I'm honest, I never thought a stone of them was medieval. anyway. they don't look like that since the fire 3 Dec 2020.

Monyash, revisited these 2018. I think I had a bit about these demonstrating how useless documentary evidence is most of the time for dating actual fabric. if those circular arches are 12thc, they also invented dogtooth and stiff leaf here

Norbury 2012/8. bit of a bugger to photograph because of the tomb. but if this is one of the most amazing proto-perp chancels from around 1300, with loads of surviving original glazing.

Radbourne, these are possible quite early 13thc? albeit built into a perp chancel. almost missed I revisited here 2019 because I misspelt the tag. def some Romanesque motifs on those arches, unlike Monyash.

Sandiacre just rules the school really. I did manage to publish on these, but even so I went back in 2017 because they're so cool. in fact this church is also in my steeples comparison.

Spondon. Yeah I don't really remember this church so let's chuck in Tideswell too. VERY fancy chancel but I've banged on about this before.

so these big pointed trefoils at Whitwell are the only set in Derbyshire other than Breadsall that aren't my pic? (geograph, Richard Croft) wow. up near Steetley Chapel. and Clowne.

Devon will not be as comprehensive.

hello it's that time! time for Devon. Axminster, from picturesofengland.com. quite steep stepping. no idea where this is, my Devon geography is terrible because I've barely been in it and there's quite a lot of it.

Bere Ferrers, by Andrew Budge, a collegiate church founded 1330x3! exciting eh. look at that chunky granite arcade respond to the R though. classic Devon. that I barely know

Blackawton, by John Salmon, bit more trad dec, Wells-Bristol orbit. they laminated their mothers' union banner.

Branscombe, by Rex Harris. Look like they're missing engaged canopies. I have no idea where this. might as well be tweeting about Poland.

Ah, Broadclyst. I've been here at least. But although it's the place of the sedilia, I think it is just a relocated tomb for this guy. who i could google or reach over to my Pevsner but i cant... ok fine.

Sir Roger de Nonant? whatever. check out his foot friend

Broadhempston, geograph.org.uk Trish Steel. yeah like. can you imagine travelling 8 hours or whatever to see these? why i didnt

Buckfastleigh churchyard chapel, flickr Philip Watson. I dont know why they've got these churchyard chapels in the SW (see above for Cornwall). but here's another one

went to Crediton too, these are a mega-important free-standing 15thc set although much battered (but at least largely unrestored)

this of Dittisham, which has a very important wall painting fragment of a priest in the one surviving niche (you can just about see his hair), came from the slide library at the courtauld I think. was the only overall view I had of it.

Exeter Cathedral, the mighty fragment of the reredos screen (remade a bunch of times, with 1930s statues, but original fictive fabrics behind) added to the 13thc choir 1317x28, and in the initial build of the lady chapel, 1280s (that nodding ogee over the door is later)

amazing, a drop sill well outside its natural habitat of East Anglia. is it real? well robert slack put it on flickr for me to see

Elizabeth Maggs kindly sent me some missing sedilia, here is High Bickington and Loxhore. Not sure the latter are medieval in the slightest (look at that honking great shaft ring on a polished shaft(!)) but there you go.

Lustleigh, uploaded to flickr by vernon hyde. classic Devon barrel ceiling.

of course I've been to the lil' Exeter Cathedral that is Bishop Grandisson's very fancy 1330s collegiate foundation of Ottery St Mary. it was a long time ago (Aug 2011) and it was too brief but at least I've been!! unlike Peter Parler, probably.

Plympton, St Mary. Exeter Architectural Society V 1952. cheers lads

and finally, Stokenham, a drop-sill clad in the veiniest of Victorian marbles. is it real? well anthony mcgrath sent it to me by post to me so I put it in. the double piscina is old though. Anyway that's Devon. wrong side of the island for seats in chancel walls on the whole.

ok Dorset. if you open a door off the S choir aisle of Christchurch Priory you see these things. number of similarities with W country archetypes (wait for Wiltshire).

this should really be Hampshire if we're doing historic counties. whatever. I'm not changing it now.

Milton Abbey is one of the few English medieval great churches I've never visited, even if it's a bit of a DINO (Decorated In Name Only) unfinished middle-rank church. Possibly that makes it all the more interesting.
This super photo of the built-in freestanders by @Baxter47Ron

@Baxter47Ron Piddlehinton. Johnelamper via flickr. part of my theory that by the 15thc wooden sedilia were more common so some stone ones started to look more like bits of furniture rather than integrated architecture.

@Baxter47Ron here's a wall bench I found in Sherborne Abbey. so yes, I have been to some of Dorset. just not much of it.

Lady St Mary, Wareham, sarumsleuth via flickr. this is the church where the "Anglo-Saxon" nave was demolished 1842 for a replacement. i mean I guess it was early 11thc. not up on it. just care about 14thc chancel here

Wimborne Minster yeah! this Dec set are so cool. this church is so cool. and i've only been here once, sadly.

they turned the Romanesque clerestory into a false gallery! how cool is that.

ok so that's Dorset I guess. wow. I suppose let's just roll onto Essex. here's a drop sill I took at Abbess Roding 2017. in East Anglia these things are a nightmare because... who cares? really. but you have to when you're doing a PhD, so I thought

Alphamstone by Chris Droffats. basic b cinquefoiled Dec (c.f Wells chapter house and loads of other stuff, cookie cutter pattern to a point really)

Ashdon by jmc4 - church explorer. yeah there's two niches at the end of that beefy 14thc arcade.

Bardfield Saling, chancel and S aisle. I think when I went here in 2011 was when I realised oh man there are drop sills everywhere here. what absolute non-art topic have I got myself into. and here we are.

hence I am going to skip some crummy drop-sill images. in fact I'm going to skip a bunch of images as I feel fit. here's Bulmer 2017. look it's that cookie-cutter cinquefoil again. see how this works now

Castle Hedingham. an extremely sophisticated chancel that's basically edging Early Gothic c.1180?. usually related to Kent models (lol Canterbury) but surely more complicated than that. the sedilia are Neo-Norman 1870-2 but set in something earlier, as this flash shows from 2011.

Went to Castle Hedingham again 2017 before a conference I was invited to at Chelmsford. note also fragment of 13thc painting that was originally in one of the backs before the restoration.
I made my montage in a pub day before. which I very nearly thought I'd lost but here it is

Colchester, St Martin, chancel and S aisle. at least it's got a fancy arm you can say something about.

Danbury. terribly exciting, yes. but it managed to get hit by a bomb in the war and Scott had fiddled with it to make it part of a new arcade to a N chapel anyway

Elmstead, well these tick all the boxes. they have faces on any everything. 2011. also it's in 3D. in other news, Chrome GPU seems to have stopped crashing all the time on Google Earth last couple days, touch wood

Fairstead (yes we're only on the Fs. I may break this off soon for your sake), broadhurst-family.co.uk. tapering shaft, nice. anyway there's a good one coming up

yes it is the fair hamlet of Fingringhoe. Sadly I have never been to Fingringhoe. The placename has nothing to do with fingering 'hos. still there's a church with a single niche sedila here, whoop.

Fyfield my lord Fy. been here thrice. painted salmon pink between May 2017 and Dec 2017. not sure if I like it tbh.
church is dedicated to St Nicholas and those may well be his golden balls (look up St Nicholas and his golden balls)

pausing Essex now. dont want to bore you all.

CARRY ON. here's Gestingthorpe, essexchurches.info. ogee-headed Dec, note how the E seat spills into the window, common second-quarter 14thc wheeze that

Good Easter, flickr Simon K. I did try like billy-o to get in here as it's quite significant for date and location but never managed it. seems it's basically only services you'll get in

Great, it's all the Greats. Great Baddow. was lucky to find this open as I left Chelmsford. unusual S Essex arcades. that road alongside was a bugger to turn round in when I realised it didn't go through

There's something far more interesting at Great Bardfield than the Perp chancel with tomb chest serving as sedilia, but whatever.

Great Braxted, Robbo (aka Boycotts) via flickr (that's his name ok I just record them). Lanceted early E.E.. Wainscotted niches. well. there you go. sorry this is very boring but I'm committed to it now

Great Bromley, two in the respond of an arcade. oh look generic cinquefoil arch again

Great Canfield, with its famous 13thc wall painting of the Virgin and Child but also a possible 13thc drop sill! I have been here May 2017 but I couldn't be bothered trying to get inside (I wasn't driving). interior picture via flickr by... John.

same day Great Dunmow. huge c.1300 chancel. shame about the perp aisle.

Great Henny, flickr Norfolkboy1. Oh look the piscina is def 13thc. the sedilia probably ain't.

See how there are more Essex churches beginning with "Great" with sedilia than there are in Dorset and Devon put together. it's crazy

Great Leighs by none other than @johnevigar. typical Dec set with ogival pointed trefoils that reach over to Oxfordshire. Notice also the cheeky early 14thc thing where they have overlap wall and window.

Great Sampford, more on the Cambs side of things, they clearly couldn't hold back on the cinquefoil arches even beyond the sedilia. daddy!

Great Tey. again classical c.1300 cinquefoil but top-class naturalistic foliage in the spandrels. Oh I got here again in 2017. lost its nave by 1829.

Lawford. Well. Just the best chancel ever really. what date is a piece of string? it's like 1320s. or 30s. maybe 40s. I lean to about 1330, but there's very little to go off. incredibly rich and the sedilia are just a part of the ensemble

Little Bentley, well you can see the watermark.
Again interesting E.E.Essex I think is the sort of thing that should be looked into and I did scratch the surface of monumental 13thc parochial masonry building when I did the Essex Record Office presentation in 2017.

Little Dunmow Priory, the sedilia of the presbytery behind the parish church which is in the former S choir aisle. exciting stuff huh

to finish the littles here's the very confident Little Thurrock via the RCHM. taken by me on the 21 Dec 2012. wow party time huh

the awesomely OTT Dec S aisle of Maldon, All Saints had sedilia but they are probably the worst surviving bit of the whole S wall. possibly that Perp window's fault as much as anything else

Marks Tey. this is like a Christian jam-band hut but it isn't hard to get into. also yeah this is a drop-sill but I took it so here it is

Mucking, 2002-5 was being converted into a private residence, guess I'm never getting in here despite it being intriguingly good E.E.Essex

Newport. not Gwent

Orsett, essexchurches.info. I know. I just want this county to be over too

Pebmarsh. appalling post-medieval chancel shortening (not revisited since 2011)

let's stick some of these together. Purleigh (flickr alandorrill), Rettendon (RCHM), Shalfrod (me), Sible Hedingham (me)

Stebbing (me, revisit 2017), Thaxted (me), Tillingham (Essexchurches.info but man I did wanna go here) and Tilty Abbey capella extra portas (me, 2011)

right I've had enough of boring you all with Essex and its hybrid early imported stone E.E. and Dec, and boring Perp drop sills so here we go: West Haddon (me), Wethersfield (John Salmon), Willingale, St Christopher (flickr PaulHP) and Wormingford (johlibaptist.blogspot.co.uk). done.

it's time for Gloucestershire! Here is the S aisle at Berkeley which I revisited in Dec 2018

Beverston Castle chapel, from Country Life apparently. nice aren't they.

Bitton - both of these were sent to me by Elizabeth Maggs who sent me quite a lot of stuff from the W Country 2015 onwards. The N chapel are a really important showy work of a chantry chapel by Bishop Bitton of Exeter, 1299. notice standard cinquefoils and pointed trefoil gables.

Blockley, got here in 2018. notice odd respond from presumably aborted 12thc vaulting? odd really. anyway this is the church where they film the Mark Williams Father Brown

Bourton-on-the-Hill (Rex Harris), Bourton-on-the-Water (flickr simononly). Drop-sills and piscinas. why are they so bad at naming places in the Cotswolds. it's like they just riff off the same few places.

for instance Chipping Norton (where I have been) and Chipping Camden (where I haven't). terribly confusing

Cirencester Trinity chapel (outer N aisle). Again by Liz Maggs. best picture I have of this church I really think was one of the most egregious omissions of places I've never got to. Considered driving an hour out of the way a couple of weeks ago but... nah.

Edgeworth (Rex Harris). notice the nifty lil armrests.

And speaking of armrests, here's Evenlode. I think these armrests were generally made as ends for choir benches and reappropriated as sedilia much later on. this is by fellow PhD student Ann Adams. I think this was her parish church

There's a building at Fairford as well as all the glass. And I saw it, in 2017.

Frampton-on-Severn by all too briefly of this parish Tudor Barlow (some of you will know him by another name)

St Peter's Abbey, Gloucester. Cathedral. I didn't take this till 2017. never worked out how much Scott had to work off as never found a pre-restoration image. the musical angels on top are 14thc, basically little else is. always bamboozled me this thing has

I've never got in St Mary de Crypt Gloucester to my chagrin, so my image is from the Conway. Typical late 14thc semi-ogees.

Hailes, capella extra portas of the Cistercian Abbey. revisited here early 2019. got bashed through by a door, sadly, but the early 14thc wall painting does seem to have fictive fabrics behind, like Exeter Cathedral

Marshfield (John Salmon). cookie cutter very late dec stuff.

Meysey Hampton.
always with me
tiny chancel

went a fair bit out of my way for this before a long drive back 2017. managed to scrape the underside of my chassis on a low wall doing a U turn. I mean look at it though. mega ensemble.

Northleach (Conway). yes these do look like Chipping.. whatever... upthread. well done. things made at the same time look the same. who would've thought

Shipton Oliffe by @bwthornton. quite satisfying ensemble with angle piscina. likely there was a canopy where the flowers were, whether it could've been for reservation of the sacrament, not sure. we'll see some potential S side aumbries later on

Slimbridge you really want to go for the nude E.E. arcades and super-slender spire, but the chancel has these chonky Dec sedilia, if you're into that.

Liz Maggs took this for me at Somerford Keynes. looks legit. yes there is a funny exclave of drop sills in the Cotswolds, for some reason. probably all the cloth-trade Perp.

South Cerney, Rex Harris again. Yeah they don't look that big do they. like the seat has been elevated. the bishop head is notable though and clearly real

Stow-on-the-Wold. Crikey, I got here in 2018. I guess I wasn't able to go over the communion rail to eyeball the polychromy to see if it's properly old or not. the modern hanging and cushion is nice tho

Sudeley (flickr John H Hutchinson). these are a Midlands mid-15thc type that have the big trumpeting canopies. very similar to Stratford chancel and a bunch of other stuff. this is in the grounds of Sudeley Castle, been near but it wasn't open

again on fictive painted fabrics, Tewkesbury Abbey. Set probably put in c.1330, as they are over the tomb of Hugh Despenser d.1326 so he gets priests' bums as repentance. never been up to them but exceptional survival of 14thc polychromy. love 'em

Thornbury. I went here in December 2018 and barely remember it. yes they do look like Berkeley don't they. although notice the half-spandrel on the R is all the evidence for reconstructing those pierced pointed trefoils

bring your daughter
to Upper Slaughter
(Rex Harris)

Right let's finish this off. Upper Swell (bwthornton); Westerleigh (churchcrawler.pwp.blueyonder.co.uk wow blast from the past); Winson (Liz Maggs); Wyck Rissington (bwthornton)

And finally for Gloucs, Winchcombe. revisited here in 2019 after first visit 2010. the sedilia are generally thought to be a reuse of the old reredos. and I agree. remember there was a massive abbey just to the NE, might've come from there in the 1530s.

eagle-eared listeners may have noticed that Chipping Norton isn't in Gloucestershire. Chipping Campden is. here is Chipping Campden, courtesy Rex Harris. the sedilia at the former I have seen are likely a 19thc copy of this. I mean I dont know. I haven't been. To Chipping Campden

ok here's Hampshire: there aren't many. Amport, so north it's basically Wiltshire. Nice depressed ogees. credit Peter Moore. the EXIF info says it was taken in 2014.

Buriton, again, basically Sussex. Bit of classic E.E.. I think this was taken by @EngChurchPics when the chancel was scaffolded up.

@EngChurchPics Corhampton, off the church's website. one of those troublesome pairs of stone arms I reckon were used originally as ending longer benches

@EngChurchPics Headbourne Worthy (stephensays.wordpress.com). always though these looked a bit derpy. presumably there's an element missing

@EngChurchPics Portsmouth, Hospital church of Domus Dei (now Royal Garrison Church). my dad took this. Never got inside myself

@EngChurchPics Stockbridge, this is an early 12thc chancel standing on its own now and I spent /ages/ trying to find a pic of the presumably early sedile. I think this was from a funeral (flickr nor4h). just googled it and looked what I found immediately. man my thesis would be way easier now

@EngChurchPics Titchfield, chancel (probably all Victorian not based on much old evidence) and S aisle (more authentic Dec)

and that's it! Not many in Herefordshire but I will probably give this a rest for a week. but I do intend on tweeting out every medieval English sedilia picture I have!!

hello we are back with Herefordshire. Here is Craswall Priory, Grandmontine, dissolved as an alien priory 1441. This pic (flickr, cymdeithaswr) is at least 9 years old so the child in it will be a teenager now at

Dormington, sent to me by Liz Maggs again, looks a bit like a drop-sill dunny. but legit

An unusually fancy 13thc set for these parts at Eardisland again by Liz Maggs. Not far from Leominster but never got here myself

Eaton Bishop, went here in 2010, place with the 14thc glass of course, but the building it's in is interesting too, and I looked at it properly in early 2019

Goodrich Castle apparently has two chapels with sedilia in them. Did stay under it in early 2019 (in Flanesford Priory refectory) but never went in.

Sad set at All Saints, Hereford, seemingly bashed through for a new door in the 15thc.

Kingsland and Leintwardine, two morw snaps by Liz Maggs that show geometric gothic got into the borders.

Leominster Priory, outer S aisle, ballflower explosion. Visited 2010, this from 2018

Little Hereford, jmc4 - church explorer. geo trefoils with lil armrests

Madley, again, went here in 2010, revisited 2017. Dat apse. More to do with West Country stuff than local style. Although singin ringin bingin bongin ballflower

Actual film exposures of Welsh Newton drop sill and stone arm rests, by Ian Jessiman, 1950s. they're probably still pretty much the same

And finally, Wigmore, again by Liz Maggs (who did a great job filling in the gaps in the West Country, a bit late for the thesis though). Again an armrest and an angle piscina in a drop sill.

will these sell better as NFTs if I can make it so they are smoking a blunt or something? anyway Hertfordshire. Aldenham, well, it was enough (flickr Ian A Wood)

Anstey, got here 2017. hybrid drop-sill with niches. possibly had some sort of canopy over the window seats. anyway all later 13thc, interesting building

Ashwell. nearly forgot I went here 2019. this is the big Perp honker with the massive spike and the graffito of London Cathedral in the tower.

Bengeo. never got here. it has old wall paintings. who cares where this pic came from

Benington (flickr, Lyn Bracey). multi-cusped arches, likely Victorian shafts.

Cheshunt, Conway library. was always a bit confused by this ensemble tbh

Furneux Pelham, me, 2017 again

Little Hormead (geograph nick macneill). pokey E.E. chancel I guess.

Bit like Meesden, I can vouch is a tiny little church but enough ambition to have transepts, albeit rebuilt, but you have the original arcades to them. nice tiles on the sanctuary floor too.

Much Hadham, one of a handful of surviving wooden sedilia, likely a triple set chopped-up into two seats for the reformed Anglican rite. they are chained down, but I have pictures of the backs and all that. clearly meant to go in front of the retired 13thc double piscina.

North Mimms. I've been to South Mimms (or Mymms) near the M25 service station, but apparently not here. brookmanparksnewsletter from flickr has though

Redbourn. nearly forgot I went here in 2019 too.

oh, um, Flamstead End is in Cheshunt and I've been there. oops. I think I was just vibing on anywhere I went in 2019

Sandon! It's documented! but they don't mention the sedilia in the contract! whoop!

double-storey sedilia at the controversially-dated St Albans lady chapel (1300s? 1310s? 1320s? who knows). of course completely re-instated by Scott (before Lord Grimthorpe's reign of shit)

Thorley, from the church friends flickr. big ol'd spandrels, but very narrow shafts.

Finally for Herts, Wheathampstead, me in 2017. yes they were clearly making some sort of point with that piscina canopy, weren't they. like St Albans Lady chapel, date this microarchitecture at your peril.

is Huntingdonshire even a real county these days? who knows. here it comes. here's Bainton. A Perp window with a drop sill with armrests. thanks english-church-architecture.net

Barnack is such a super building but it seems I'm strapped for time everytime I'm there. chancel probably 1300s, the gables in the tracery are like Merton College chapel of similar date

Castor 13thc despite the rounded arches, I did actually take a tour group here in 2018. funny thing, I stuck my hand in the piscina drain where there was water and it /really stunk/. lesson learnt there.

Conington. Conway. there are a few Coningtons round here, pretty sure I never got to this one. it's late medieval so it looks like furniture ahhh.

Eaton Socon (Andrew Wood). A drop sill with some effort put in.

Elton, RCHM. Yes that is my camera flash from 21 Dec 2012. left in for authenticity.

Farcet, RCHM. there are at least three of these round Peterborough but I never got to any of them, sadly. there was a boring paper in them at least I thought

Fenstanton, 2019. Did remember I went here but never bothered updating my archive image. my PhD image had flowers in that thankfully weren't there when I visited.

Great Paxton: what's more interesting, a unique arcaded English pre-conquest Romanesque church, drawing on Holy Roman Empire models and built on land held by Edward the Confessor mid 11thc, or a perp chancel with some Perp sedilia?

well the former, obviously

Helpston (Yahoo, kenith2190).
I suppose the more interesting history here is that boomers used to share church pictures on Yahoo Groups before their children showed them Facebook. And how we regret that

Houghton, RCHM, some stone arms again. yeah I never solved these mainly because I never saw any of them (this is an outlier though, downriver from Huntingdon)

Keyston (flickr churchcrawler)

trefoils! yes! what else can I say

Maxey, Ian Jessiman 1950s again. I did go here but it was locked and I was annoyed. I'm not sure the Pevsner people got in here because they were confused where they were, even in the new edition (they're in the chancel, not the N chapel)

Northborough, S nave set rudely knocked about. a BAA visit so I couldn't move the chairs.

Somersham, so I went here in 2018? I'm as surprised as you.

Spaldwick (flickr Spadwick Photos. good to practice at home I suppose)

A genuine 14thc drop-sill, likely. isn't that interesting, boys and girls

Stanground, a Perp single niche, probably. the c.1300 impaled trefoils on the piscina though

Ufford (geograph J. Hannan-Briggs). 13thc. you can see behind the shafts to chat with your colleagues

Water Newton, RCHM. I think I got near this once.

Yaxley. I actually published these because they are an important early chantry chapel. they clipped the ladders in front of the piscina out though (nothing I could do on that really). compare Conway photo. Winnie the Pooh lives in William de Yaxley, Abbot of Thorney's chantry now

Yelling. Went out of my way to see this 2013 because Pevsner described it at length. It was clearly the first drop-sill he saw. (Northamptonshire 1961, Suffolk and Norfolk would follow in the next year).

That's all Hunts

Isle of Wight. My dad took this at Shanklin. ok that's it. I have to do Kent next but there are so many I'm not sure if this is a good idea anymore

are you ready for more SEDILIA?
I KENT HEAR YOU!!!

Aldington, 2012. shields, unblazoned, so what can you say.

Alkham, sent to me by Peter Moore, who I sent a few snaps of Burlison and Grylls glass to in exchange

Bearsted. This was an in and out job while there were flower arrangers or someone like that there 2012. note the mini-trefoil rerearches across the board, although not sure how many of them are legit

Biddenden (geograph John Salmon), Birling (flickr Volvoman.Margate), Bobbing (Conway). Later most people interested in the Romanesque sculpture bunged into the W jamb. bah.

Boughton Aluph. odd sedile/poss later piscina. I only got in here 2012 because I randomly asked a guy in front of the manor house. absolute barnstormer. when they're my pics from now on I'll endeavour to include the chancel they're built into

Boughton-under-Blean, chancel and S aisle. no I don't know why that crenelated transom is there on the latter. It was 2012, I didn't photograph the outside properly

Bredgar (RCHM), Brenchley (flickr Di Brooks). the sort of visual evidence I had to work with in a nutshell for the most part

Brook. I went here again in 2016 but apparently I couldnt be arsed taking any more pictures inside the chancel. I think I was a bit bummed we couldn't get the tower open because Mrs Munter lost the key or something. most people care more about the Canterbury orbit paintings.

Brookland by Romney Marsh was a treat to see 2017. even if the splendidly shafted E.E. chancel got busted through for some Perp S aisle chapel with a Becket mural in it

Capel-le-Ferne. The CCT church with the Perp arcade-rood screen. crappy 2012 pics again sorry

Chalk. I actually forgot to take an overall view of this so there's just details and me sitting in it. this overall by flickr sarumsleuth. nice model of it in G Earth, you can see the chopped-off S aisle clearly

Charing. 2012, closed 2017. sedilia essentially 19thc, although in 1852 was recorded "three sedilia in the chancel, two partially filled up". so you see how this rolls really

Chatham. this is from 1788 before the church got demolished. extraordinarily good-quality Westminster-adjacent work. there's a bit of the old building left at the W end, but I've never been. Chatham, though. can you blame me

Cheriton. again, 2012, but much to my chagrin, couldn't get inside 2016. oof the build up for that chancel though

Chislet, Peter Moore again. oh look armrests. also cinquefoil for the priest's seat

Cliffe. what an incredible Dec chancel this is. shame I had to weave in and out between their main communion service and their more informal worship event for these. notice the cruets left in the sedilia. at least it's not consecrated material eh, listeners

Cobham. Well yes I got here in 2012 but also 2016. enormous chancel made collegiate 1362 so sedilia probably something to do with Henry Yevele, who worked elsewhere for Baron Cobham last quarter 14thc. typical semi-ogees for period

Cooling. So cool. not been back since 2012 though

Crundale.

Dartford, Holy Trinity. flickr Didimendum1. yeah I don't know either what's going on with the salmon pink. I know we're only on D but gonna pause it for tonight as I'm both bored and have 20+ notifications. tune in tomorrow, same sedilia time, same sedilia channel

Hey baby, what's the Deal. never got back here. the chancel is heavily redone and reskinned late Victorian but the sedilia and re-positioned 12thc pillar piscina are interesting survivals. the Kent big double niche for the other two clerics

Doddington. Very rare late medieval timber set built into the screen in an early 13thc arcade. As I recall I actually lifted (with help) the original bench into its proper place under the coved screen and then put it back. as you can see, it fits

screen and bench on N side of the chancel in 2012. man it was heavier than you'd think. bonus the brilliant church sign with the whole dedication that's very imagination spongebob

how do you do

(haha even the star fits with it. love it)

oh yeah ok. Never been to Dover. Mary de Castro all a bit Butterfielded but possibly was important

Eastling, such classic 13thc. also has these weird lads on the other wall though. not revisited, you might notice these are point-n-click flash

Egerton, the cinquefoil heads look late 13thc but the corbelling out a bit unusual. I would hazard a guess these have been "mucked about a bit"

Eythorne, I did try like billy-o to get in here but alas, this pic is by Peter Moore. My 2012 pic would've been shit anyway. possibly very early Canterbury influenced Gothic! or possibly not! who knows

Faversham, revisited 2017. The massive chancel is often dated after the big riot against the abbey (fair bit to the N) but well, why, also it's very Victorian (G.G. Scott) and the sedilia look like his work at Kensington St Mary Abbots so always a bit chinny-reckon here

Godmersham, 2016, but didn't seem to take a proper picture of the sedile thing. man I was really adamant not to give a shit about them then. 2012 photo of it

Graveney, RCHM. Even the the late medieval sedilia are weird in Kent. also we're only on G? well. welcome to my PhD feeling. wait till we get stuck on Ws for seemingly ever

Gravesend, SS. Peter and Paul. from the church site. obviously totally Victorianised but likely based on something. look at that sound system though. reckon it takes cassettes AND mini-discs

Great Mongeham. another great example of weird Kent piscina/sedilia groups where it's just like shotgun a bunch of seats into the wall and work out it out later. chancel massively Butterfielded, would have liked to see it again but alas

Hawkinge, a drop sill that MIGHT be contemporary with the 13thc lancet but considering the refenestration probably not. Pic by Peter Moore. Apparently a private house now. gone a bit overboard on the Jesus stuff in the corner really

Hoo are you

Hoo Hoo

Hoo Hoo

Hythe, the perplexing place which was nominally only a chapel in the Middle Ages but has one of the very few parochial chancels with masonry vaults, even if the high vault didn't get put on until the late 1880s

Kingston. classic perp single niche where the officiating clergy can get snug together. Peter Moore again

Lamberhurst. the high unusual bench looks 13thc, the arcades later. all a bit odd really. i went down in a hole here and I can't remember why

Leeds! Having trouble searching my archive for more pictures of Leeds, in Kent, so let's move swiftly on

ah this weird throne thing at Lenham. nearly as confusing as the way the Pevsners for Kent are divided down the M20, by which it sits.

Lydden. I think the thing about this place is how ordinary it is. Sedilia really aren't an conspicuous object to have in your church. you have masonry walls? stick em in, from what we have save in core we'll chuck the carved voussoirs in for free

of course sedilia could be conspicuous if patronage was there and threw money at them. At collegiate church of Maidstone they back on to tomb of 1st master, John Wotton, d.1417. I stood on the sill opposite to see how they linked up, didn't do that well tbh. needed a selfie stick

Milton Regis S chapel (church site), Minster in Sheppey (kenthistoryforum.co.uk). I mean nice 14th/13thc sets, but not been so don't have anything interesting I can say about them really

actually did a selfie of myself in all three sedilia of the 14thc E end of New Romney though. silly but makes you think how extraordinary the industry of religion was at this time that they installed things like this

sod it don't want to bombard you with this guff all night, so like sedilia, let's split Kent into three. Thus finally for tonight, Northbourne. I don't know why the piscina is triangular, or what date the single niche is. the chancel has trefoil rerearches though. Yum yum!

Kent resumed. Northfleet S aisle, from church site. I did go here back from Kent in 2012 but you're basically in London at this point so no way was it open

Oare (flickr Tudor Barlow), Pembury (geograph John Salmon), Pluckley (blossynspage.wordpress.com). well. all a bit vague really, but I reckon that arm at Pluckley is bunged in from a stone choir bench. No sign it's monolithic with the seat.

Preston-next-Faversham, man, these things. bizarre, with heads looking through the gables. probably closest relatives to the destroyed set at Chatham. reassembled 19thc and there are old bits of masonry lying about nearby. likely added to early 13thc lanceted chancel 1260s-80s

Rainham, (not to be confused with Rainham in Havering, East London), gables again. skeuomorphism defined really. church site, never been (to this Rainham)

Ringwould. man in 2012 I was rollocking through these buildings and wasn't doing surveys of the outside partly because I had no idea what I was doing but also I had such limited time to see them. crazy shit in retrospect.

Rochester Cathedral! A rare cathedral with a walled high altar! And hence a late 14thc set! In my defence on the first pic not sure the floor is straight. No excuse for my only pic of them in 2017 being blurry though.

literally like ten minutes up the road from Doddington is Rodmersham which has another extremely rare (talking like, five nationwide) timber set. completely unconnected workshop-wise (prob a good few decades later too), also an early, c.1200 set behind in the S aisle wall.

never been to Sandwich, but St Peter has these chonky gabled lads (flickr beforeyoureyes took the best I could find at the time)

could've sworn I've been to Smarden. apparently not. Jullian P Guffogg has though. Notice corbelling out like Bearsted, but here the E site is cinquefoiled, the other two are trefoiled

got a load of flack for stopping a group road trip in Snave. no masonry vaults! boring! dogs are barking at us! whatever it's a nicely-preserved Dec build, nave with an aisle but no arcade too (c.f. Middleton, Milton Keynes, above)

Southfleet, geograph steven craven. not great detail of them, but shows them in context well in a big-ass c.1300 chancel which is more important

St Nicholas at Wade (Peter Moore). looks like a hollow rather than a chamfer on the moulding so likely contemporary with the piscina. which is like, I dont know, I'd need to look at the building really

Upchurch. Open seats built into a new arcade which cuts into earlier blind arcading. in turn they had their tops chopped off for an openwork timber screen. Again near Rodmersham and Doddington but stylistically separate woodwork. in fact this is likely the earliest of three.

Near the end of the alphabet eh. well. here come the Ws! Waltham. Very fancy mid-14thc set. also look ma, no arcades

Warehorne (roughwood.net), late Dec drop sill with fancy foliage trail, don't know if the polychrome is medieval, likely not.

West Malling (flickr churchcrawler). curse you Sir Robert Brett d.1620. you made it all about you.

Westbere (RCHM). Yeah these oddly proto-perp things with crenelated tops are all over the place in Kent. also pointed trefoils in the spandrels, as we'll see at...

... Westwell, unassuming-looking place that holds a masonry chancel vault buttressed by a stone screen. Sedilia ensemble bunged in over the earlier blind arcades 1330s-40s probably. A mystery why this church is so extraordinary (archbishop holding rectory dont explain anything)

Willesborough. All I had. snap again on the spandrel trefoils. who would've thought stuff in the same area looked similar

Wingham (geh.org). Spent so long trying to get in here. Someone had locked themselves inside playing the organ. I had arranged to get in so I was quite cross

Wittersham (flickr Elaine Christian), Womenswold (geograph John Salmon). do you see how long the Ws go on now. man.

Woodchurch, nice 13thc E.E. ensemble (geograph John Salmon) I kinda paired this with Brookland on Romney Marsh although I never got up to here as well, sadly

And finally (phew) Woodnesborough. Got shields on them, and best of all, mini vaults. Mid 14thc but seemingly bunged into earlier fabric, which has all been messed about with quite a bit.

ok don't worry everyone it's just Lancashire tonight so won't take long. all my pics, but taken surprisingly late. e.g. didn't get till Euxton, a stones throw from the West Coast Mainline, till 2016! Originally a red sandstone box with no architectural division (sanctuary 1837)

Halsall, superb, if extremely restored, late 14thc Dec chancel of NW Midlands type (reaching at least over to Dronfield in Derbyshire), didn't even visit here till 2018.

Leyland, the intersecting tracery chancel survives on the early 19thc church, the sedilia with their round arches are similar to Euxton. Not too hard to get in here despite it being very Evangelical. Right next to a big Tesco too

oh look Ribchester's also are round arched with the most rudimentary of multiple mouldings. it's almost like there's a cohesive local style or something

Tatham, on the edge of nowhere in the Middle Ages, a lot (big wink) is likely to do with Paley and Austin 1886-7.

Warton (by Warton Crag, N of Carnforth) has this set built into the S aisle. Exterior covered in unattractive render, but did see some of it off last time I went in 2018. lots of stone round here, but not freestone for proper ashlar, it seems

Whalley, these, always thought these looked like an addition, but the chancel also looks like a very late E.E. build to me (like, 1300). Timber choir stalls from adjacent Cistercian Abbey at dissolution, pls ignore

and finally, Winwick. Chancel rebuilt by A.W.N. Pugin 1847-9 for Edward Smith-Stanley, 13th Earl of Derby. Evidentially with a /lot/ of embellishment from Lincolnshire examples but I'll give it a pass. open a lot more since they got an HLF grant 2013 and are obliged to be.

wait messed up already and replied to Ribchester twice. So, Sefton, notorious fortress, open half hour a week if you're lucky. One of my biggest issues for shouldn't be in Jenkins 1k for that reason, even if the screenwork that ignores the English Reformation is nationally unique

ok here goes LEICESTERSHIRE. man this is gonna take a while. and has some baggage. Here's Arnesby. yeah two different styles. can't remember what I thought when I was here in 2017. PhD finished who cares. I think I had lunch here

here's the baggage. I used a rare recent PhD thesis on English parish churches in Leicestershire completed 2011. lots of images. Shortly after I completed end of 2016, I discovered the author, John Eric Clark, had been convicted for historic child sexual abuses. fucking hell.

anyway this is one of his, Arnesby. he was 80 when he was sentenced to 20 years in October 2015.

for the record the text wasn't very good at all, but I did cite it in my thesis. wish I hadnt now

anyway, that aside. Aylestone, a monster early Dec chancel I couldn't get in, but Aidan McRae Thompson did.

Belgrave, just N of Leicester. Never got here because the CofE spent the 2010s trying to sell the building off. I think they gave up, and a friends' group take care of it now

Burton Overy (jmc4), Castle Donington (that guy), Castle Doinington S aisle (photobucket BereniceUK), Church Langton (flickr Lord Muttley McFester).

Latter classic Midlands type of the inverted trefoils. also dated by egregious mid 2010s auto HDR that seems to have died off now

Cold Overton, I think these are what we dub Dec In Name Only. Pleasing really. love the ironstone in this half of Leicestershire

Cossington, falling back on the Conway library so I don't have to use that guy's pics, which weren't good anyway. unusual use of figurative imagery on these. never been though, as you can see.

Edmondthorpe, which some 17thc guy enterprisingly turned into his mon. there's an organ that majorly gets in the way here. also yes there's a drop sill as well, weird, I know.

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Fleckney. again, pleasingly normal. jmc4 caught a sill in use as a credence here, in case you wonder how that works

jmc4 really is value for money. Hallaton 13thc chancel and 14thc S aisle. yes the S aisle has those standard inverted pointed trefoils. why waste a good idea really

Houghton on the Hill N aisle, one of extremely few sedilia in a N wall, but bashed through by a perp window and filled in anyway. who knows what they were up to. ironstone though, lovely

Ilston-on-the-Hill, jmc4 again. 13thc. kneeler at a dutch angle probably should have been corrected before shooting

the county capital, and also the capital of medieval sedilia: surely more surviving than any other settlement! The chancels of Leicester: St Margaret, St Martin (Cathedral) and St Mary de Castro, the last a most troublesome Romanesque spanner.

and the S aisle sedilia of Leicester: All Saints, St Mary de Castro, St Nicholas and St Martin (latter sent to me by the cathedral, they were stuck behind stacked chairs on my visit)

Lowesby, Lubenham, Market Bosworth. all by that guy. should have a holiday in Leicestershire to replace all his images really. although I could probably do it with an afternoon on the internet. less fun of course

Market Harborough, flickr sweenpole2001. wow! gables! the dizzy fun of doing a PhD early 2010s where you can get pictures of things even though you can't drive, but also, they suck

well not always. Martin Beek did a good one of Medbourne S aisle. why is the centre arch taller? i dont know. the R arch isn't centred though so maybe it was a mistake

Misterton, was close to replacing this picture by that guy in 2017 but it was locked. damnit.

Nosley, Pickwell, that guy. I mean at the time this was a goldmine especially since Leicestershire, despite being awesome, isn't really on the churchcrawler trail. bleh.

Ratcliffe Culey, one of my favourite churches for no particular reason, except it's the most straight-forward no-nonsense build you're likely to see from the 14thc.

Ratcliffe on the Wreake. One of those places you always see signed off the road but I've never got to. Saw it on the M1 other week in fact. ANyway Nice pic by LeicesterPhotoDesign.

Rearsby. that guy. i mean at least he was so dedicated to an arbitrary division (partly why the thesis is shit), he only ruined one county and we never have to speak of him again after this

Sapcote, Andrew Budge. Must've been collegiate then. Look I'm just poasting through this, I don't intend on opening a Pevsner unless absolutely necessary

Shearsby, jmc4. these are delightfully shit and I love them

Sibson, flickr Sarumsleuth. I think we're gonna do it, we're going to finish Leicestershire this evening

Somerby, that guy sorry. Again, I've been here, but couldn't get in. The ironstone east of Leicestershire is beautiful but a mixed bag for access

I mean look at this, South Croxton. gorgeous ironstone and blue sky, what more do you need

Sutton Cheney (LeicesterPhoto Design), Thurlaston, Tilton-on-the-Hill, Ulverscroft Priory (that guy).

He had some big thing about how Ulverscroft's were by the London Ramsey workshop, should've said it was a shit thesis because it really was

let's get the last of his out of the way. tried multiple times to get into Willoughby Waterleys, always locked and no sign who to call to get in. I can't write letters to every incumbent and travel whenever. unlike. that guy.

still. i didn't have a bad run in Leics. Welford. look how pleased the vicar was that they found a perp single niche in his wall in 1953

Whetstone, amazed this was open really, you couldn't even see most of the outside for scaffolding

Wigston Magna. S aspect of chancel restricted IIRC

finally, Wymondham. no, not that one, the Leicestershire one. it's lovely ironstone you see. see you tomorrow for Lincolnshire. probably not all of it. and no awful problematic photographs