chantry

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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

He was afterwards rector of Abbreochy, Loch Ness, and later held a chantry in the cathedral of Norway.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various

The names of Earl Brithnoth and of these contemporaries are inscribed on tablets let into the wall of this chantry.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

Their worldly possessions at no one time reached a figure high enough for them to provide a large endowment for church or chantry, but the thankofferings of the years sufficed for all current expenses.

From The Influence and Development of English Gilds As Illustrated by the History of the Craft Gilds of Shrewsbury by Hibbert, Francis Aiden