chantry
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At the lectern during rehearsals he turned the pages of the missal, a book of music notes large enough for all the Brothers to see as they stood in the chantry.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
One Friday toward the end of September the monks of the choir stood practicing in the chantry.
From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli
At St. Leonard's, a hamlet of this parish, about four miles from Aston church, is an ancient chapel, said to have been a chantry chapel to the Abbey of Missenden.
From Curiosities of Great Britain: England and Wales Delineated Vol.1-11 Historical, Entertaining & Commercial; Alphabetically Arranged. 11 Volume set. by Thomas Cantrell Dugdale
About 1387, Bishop Burghersh of Lincoln provided that the chantry founded by him should maintain six poor boys who were “professing the art of Grammar.”
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
Henry IV.'s death at, 80; Henry V.'s chantry, 81 Westminster Abbey, Almonry, clerks of, 71 Westminster Abbey, Customary of, 18, 22 f.,
From William de Colchester Abbot of Westminster by Ernest Harold Pearce
“Gareth’s blood,” said Mordred, “is not to be paid for by chantries, we think—however much it might pleasure the Bishop of Rochester.”
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
In Romanesque churches there are eastern and western choirs, and in former times the term was given to chantries and subsidiary chapels, which were also called chancels.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 6, Slice 3 "Chitral" to "Cincinnati" by Various
By the time of p. 34Richard II.—about the year 1394—at least four chantries had been founded, and chapels built, within the outer area of Wolverhampton parish; namely, at Willenhall, Bilston, Pelsall, and Hatherton.
From The Annals of Willenhall by Frederick William Hackwood
A most important and noteworthy feature of some chantries is, that in certain parishes they were founded by the inhabitants themselves, for the express purpose of providing educational facilities.
From Education in England in the Middle Ages Thesis Approved for the Degree of Doctor of Science in the University of London by Albert William Parry
At the dissolution of monasteries, the Company paid £1,402 6s. for their chantries and obits.
From Old and New London Volume I by Walter Thornbury
