re-pewed

Updated: May 4, 2025

They used to bring a bunch of flowers or evergreens every Sunday morning, and set them up in their pew ends, where a proper place was made to hold them. The whole church was seated with carved oak benches, which he had bought from time to time from other churches, when they were re-pewed with "deal boxes!"

William Haslam - From Death into Life: or, twenty years of my minstry