vestry
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In the vestry, surrounded by racks of well-pressed white surplices and brightly coloured vestments, I met Ian and Paul, one of the couples he has blessed.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
But the church has worked with the Bats in Churches team to find a solution - they've built a sealed-off loft conversion above the vestry.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
Doreen Golding, 83, the Pearly Queen of Bow Bells and the Old Kent Road, shouted to the group as she led the way to the church vestry.
From New York Times ● Apr. 29, 2023
“Mason wanted another location while Washington advocated for this site. They went before the vestry in 1767, where Washington made a compelling argument and got approval.”
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
Her dramas and her emotions had to do with the boys, with the vestry, and with food.
From "East of Eden" by John Steinbeck
In the most affluent parishes, vestries levied taxes to construct substantial churches and fill their pulpits with ministers who blessed the planters’ power.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
Long associated with fire stations, country stores and farmers' kitchens, cribbage has lately crawled into business offices and church vestries.
From Time Magazine Archive
The powers of the vestries appear to have formerly been somewhat extended, but in these latter times the influence they exercise has been very much curtailed.
From The Hills and the Vale by Richard Jefferies
The people were even deprived, during Berkeley's second administration, of the right of electing the vestries.
From Virginia under the Stuarts 1607-1688 by Thomas Jefferson Wertenbaker
The imperfect ventilation of churches and vestries is another cause of laryngitis among clergymen.
From A Treatise on Anatomy, Physiology, and Hygiene (Revised Edition) by Calvin Cutter
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