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John, any thoughts on choir stalls and misericords in smaller parish churches - do we simply have to assume they were brought in from elsewhere?
Maddy
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medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
On 16/12/2011 11:34, Anne Willis wrote:
>
> The church is Holy Trinity, Bradford on Avon, Wiltshire which dates from the
> early 12th century. It was the mother church of a large area which
> corresponds roughly to a Roman estate (the villa was on top
>
> of the hill on the site of the Iron Age settlement). There were at least
> seven chapelries and it is interesting to see how they are coming back 'into
> the fold' with the formation of local group ministries.
OK, to answer the original question: yes, it is in the diocese of
Salisbury, so the Sarum Use would have been employed. The Sarum Use as
we know it (and to the extent that we know it) probably didn't exist
before c.1200. The much later New Ordinal was probably written for
parish use. As a 'mother church', it would probably have always had
multiple clergy - so a choir for the office would not have been
problem. (It has belatedly dawned on me that the late medieval
choirstalls and misericords found in larger parish churches were for the
chantry priests who infested such churches at that date, and who were
corralled into use as a proper choir! This is documented at e.g. St.
Mary Magadalene, Newark-on-Trent)
John Briggs
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