A churchwarden's assistant, who performs such duties as showing worshippers to their seats and taking the collection during a church service.
〈英〉教区副执事
Example sentencesExamples
The Rector thanked the churchwardens, sidesmen, bellringers, church cleaners, guild and all church workers for the assistance they had given during the past year.
He was a member of St Mary's Parochial Church Council, was a sidesman and often read the lessons - and the church benefited from his passion for growing sweet peas.
When he began to spend his weekends in Suffolk, he was regular in his attendance at St Edmunds in Southwold, served as a sidesman and took part in the Parochial Church Council.
He was a sidesman there for more than 40 years, welcoming people into the church.
He was also postmaster at Worsley for 30 years and a sidesman at St Mark's Church for 35 years.