Note 118 — THE NAVE
Reading edition
We are so used to speak of the seats in church, that we commonly forget the more proper appellation of kneeling. This, however, was not always so. An old metal plate formerly on a pew in a church in the diocese of Oxford, has this inscription:—
"No 83. Vicar and Churchwardens, two kneelings. Trustees of Poor House three kneelings."