Piscinas - St Nicholas - Oakley, Suffolk
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Piscinas in St Nicholas' church, Oakley.
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Location: Eastern England, United Kingdom
Date Posted: 01/04/2019
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A piscina in the south wall of the chancel of the church, the sedilis next to it is now occupied by the 17th century memorial to Sir William Cornwallis.
"the easternmost S. window to the naive has a lowered sill with all the appearance of having once acted as a sedilia, while immediately to the east a simple piscina also suggests that modest though this church is in size, it may formerly have had a secondary altar here. Yet the S. wall is also markedly thinner in this section, so could an alternative possibility be that at one time the church possessed a small transeptal chapel here, from which the piscina and window/sedilia were taken and re-set when the chapel was demolished"
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