27th June 2014, 12:35 AM
Were these predecessors of vaulted cesspits in Anglo Saxon parish churches?,... I have found records of old crones wetting themselves waiting for the sermon to end and for the consumption of church ales but I have found no evidence of mains water or of the general populace sitting in the tower merrily evacuating the preceding nights vindaloo whilst performing a bit of campanology as the bride was accompanied down the aisle to odious embellishments to the wedding march. Please what traditional waste-disposal method that predated sewers are you talking about related to churches. I would say they are conspicuous by their absence. These are places of burial grounds and graveyard soils. There is the possibility that they were selected for their grave capabilities and that the absence of water table and the eternal collection of cess may have been a criteria -only a personal theory.
.....nature was dead and the past does not exist