Definition of "sedilia" [‖Se•dil•i•a]

• A series of seats, often recessed into the wall, on the south side of the chancel or choir for the use of officiating clergy. (noun)

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• "The design of the sedilia resembles that at St. Monans, Fife, and adjoining the sedilia is the piscina, the aperture of which is still visible."
• "Close to the sedilia is a piscina decorated in a similar manner."
• "New descriptions of ceremonial actions which readers thought would be helpful -- such as the manner in which the sacred ministers go to and from the sedilia -- have been included, as have other paragraphs elucidating matters, the appreciation of which when this book was originally in print one may reasonably have presumed."