chantry

Example Sentences

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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 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

All Souls' was designed by its Founder, Archbishop Chicheley, ad orandum as well as ad studendum; it was to serve the purpose of a chantry not less than of a College.

From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin

The westernmost chantry, or Chapel of St. George, was founded by W. Galley in 1508.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Perkins, Thomas, Rev.

This beautiful chantry, which is partly underground, has been used since as a sepulchre for the dead, a prison cell for the living,21 a receptacle for human bones, a coal cellar and heating chamber.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various