The Sedila

From Montague-Youens, Edward (Rev.) (1960) Brief History of The Church of St. Mary the Virgin.

In the post-war period the Victorian altar was removed, placed in the North Transcept, and the Lady Chapel was re-dedicated by the present¹ Bishop of Worcester in 1956. The side curtains are made of the same cloth as was used for the Queen's coronation². The new high altar, proportionately wide to the great East window³, was brought into use at the same time. The red hangings and cushions for the sedila were part of the same plan to provide the simple dignity of the spacious east end of the church. Shortly afterwards⁴ the east window was completed by the provision of three stained glass panels in the lowest course. Previously these panels had been obscured by the reredos⁵ of the altar, and had been left in plain glass.

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1. i.e. the Bishop of 1956.
2. The Queen's coronation  was in 1953.
3. The great East window is the one above the altar. It faces east, towards the Holy Land.
4. According to the writing in the stained glass window, this was done in 1958.
5. A reredos is the high back of an altar.

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