Talk:Choir (architecture)

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A quire is a measurement of paper. The more normal spelling here is choir. --Wetman 09:11, 30 June 2007 (UTC)

Well, it's slightly archaic, but a number of English Cathedral and Collegiate churches insist on this spelling, and it does allow a useful disambiguation between the choir (i.e. the group of people) and the place from which they sing. David Underdown 09:16, 2 July 2007 (UTC)

Certainly archaic enough to be moved! (And I am English.) —Ian Spackman 11:25, 3 July 2007 (UTC)

[edit] stalls v benches

I see the distinction that's being made, but even wehre the back row is true stalls, the front row is often a bench, and even wehre both rows are strictly benches, they're normally (in my experience) still referred to as "the choir stalls". David Underdown (talk) 15:56, 22 February 2008 (UTC)