• emizeko [they/them]
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    6 months ago

    cathedral, which means people were praying on the ground floor while over a lake of shit

    presumably they sealed off the smell or else what a stanky church kombucha-disgust

      • RoabeArt [he/him]
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        edit-2
        6 months ago

        Castle toilets were sometimes just holes in the floor that emptied out the side of the walls to the ground below.

        (If that "Incredible Cross Sections" book I had as a kid was a viable source. Those books went into almost comical detail on how sewage is stored and disposed of in various buildings, ships, planes etc.)

        • Speaker [e/em/eir]
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          6 months ago

          Even today with quite advanced plumbing, "where the hell do we put all the shit" is one of the more important parts of urban planning.

    • Dolores [love/loves]
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      6 months ago

      they don't seem to have been inside the basilica, some other room or possibly a different building in the cathedral complex. it's all been rebuilt like twice now though so i don't think we know for sure