bishop's seat
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I wish for your sake, it really was a bishop's seat.'
From Barchester Towers by Anthony Trollope
The apse has a marble seat running round it, with the bishop's seat in the centre raised on several steps.
From The Shores of the Adriatic The Austrian Side, The Küstenlande, Istria, and Dalmatia by F. Hamilton (Frederick Hamilton) Jackson
He mounted the bishop's seat, a stately throne, rich with the carving of the fifteenth century.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Exeter A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Percy Addleshaw
Here and there, traces of stone-benches were visible; while a high-backed chair, likewise of stone, and resembling a bishop's seat in old churches, stood beside the window.
From Ekkehard. Vol. I (of II) A Tale of the Tenth Century by Joseph Victor von Scheffel
The town of Dorchester on the borders of Mercia was immediately assigned to Birinus as a bishop's seat.
From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Philip Walsingham Sergeant
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