vestry
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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
A week later, it was performed by Elizabeth John in the vestry of Tabor Chapel in Maesteg, Bridgend county.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2022
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
Inheriting the power of the vestries which they displaced, the bodies now mentioned have in their hands the appointment of overseers of the poor.
From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet) Escott
In Virginia the vestries of the parishes fought Governor after Governor until they won the right for the vestry itself to choose the minister to serve in its parish.
From Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers by G. MacLaren (George MacLaren) Brydon
He appears to have sympathized on these matters with the vestries and the people.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Charles Campbell
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