The Singer’s Pulpit

They are always richly decorated, such as this example in the Church of St. Nicholas in Stralsund, first mentioned in 1276. There it “hangs” over the high altar in the eastern section of the church.

The fourteenth-century Gothic Cathedral at Exeter contains a singer’s pulpit as well, in this case on the northern side of the Gothic nave. It is thought to have been created around 1340, shortly before the completion of the church.