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Noun
  1. plural of misericord
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In 1688, the joiner Roger Davis, citizen of London, removed the 13th century misericords and replaced them with two rows of his own work on each side of the choir.
They tweaked his tail on carven misericords, and in the mystery play he was invariably cast for the clown.
The twelve misericords date from the late 15th or early 16th century.
The senior choir stalls are misericords, hinged seats with a wooden block on which choirmen could sit during long sermons.
Some of Davis's misericords have a distinctly medieval flavour and he may have copied some of the original designs.
These appear in the stained glass windows, stone column capitals, decorated ends of pews, or even the misericords carved on the bottom of hinged church seats.

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