Pew - wooden seats or benches in the church. Pews only appeared at the end of the medieval period. Often pews had carved bench-ends and were carved with animal or foliage designs.
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Originally, Christians stood for worship, and that is still the case in many eastern churches. The pew, a long, backed bench upon which congregants sit, was an innovation of western medieval Christianity.
PEW RENTING
The order of seating in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries reflected the rigid social structure of that period. Box pews, which provided a certain level of privacy and comfort, would be rented by the wealthy families.
Box Pew
- pew enclosed by high wooden back and ends, the latter having doors. Popular as a means of cramming people into Georgian "god boxes" where everyone had a right to a seat.
Perpendicular style - the name given to late 15th century English Gothic architecture as lines became longer and carving more elaborate. Also know as Flamboyant style.
pew - wooden seats or benches to seat the congregation, ...
Photo: Church pew - St. Stephen's RC Cathedral (Stephendom),Vienna, Austria
Photo: Baroque façade of the Jesuit Church of Saints Peter & Paul, Cracow, Poland ...
BOX PEW: a pew enclosed by a high back and ends, the ends having doors. BRACE: any timber reinforcing an angle. BRATTISHING: ornamental cresting.
A carved ornamental finial at the end of a bench, pew, or stall.
Priantsearch for term
A representation of a person, as if in life, kneel as if in prayer.
1. chair, place, bench, stall, throne, stool, pew, settle Stephen returned to his seat.
Crockets - Projecting decoration (often foliage) decorating angled edges (e.g. of spires, canopies, pew-ends or architraves).
 See also: Architecture, Church, Arch, Cathedra, House
  
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