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.)
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
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
New Miyazaki swamp level discovered
The Doo Doo Depths
Was a stankier time in general
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.)
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.
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