2 GOTHIC CHOIR STALLS
ca. 1480

Crisp carved
Moulded fronts with gothic knots, on top crisp carved monks reading their books, and poppy heads (A bundle of leafs or stylised fleur-de-lys)

Choir stalls are the decorated wooden seats in monasteries and churches where the cannons would have sung the services.

Old label
White Allom & Co, London. (decoraters/antique dealers, ca. 1905)