St. Nicholas,Husthwaite- Interior.

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[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

I've been in many churches in Connecticut and Western Massachusetts that have box pews. There are also still a few churches in Estonia that have box-pews although most have been removed. They were a hold-over from the German Rittenshaft period.

[poliphilo.livejournal.com]

Medieval churches didn't have seats- except in the choir for the clergy. According to Wikipedia, pews were largely an innovation of the Protestant Reformation. You couldn't really expect people to sit through enormously long sermons without offering them somewhere to sit.

[saare-snowqueen.livejournal.com]

That makes sense. My Grandfather's New England family were Congregationalists and the Reformation took hold here in Estonia with a vengeance.