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Example sentences for "chantry"

Lexicographically close words:
chanters; chantey; chanties; chanting; chantries; chants; chanty; chany; chaos; chaotic
  1. The latter would only be correct if it included the little chantry projecting on the south side.

  2. And to the south of the last two buttresses on this side there came to light the trench or matrix of a small additional building, a chantry or a sacristy.

  3. The lytell chantry was roofed in pannels by .

  4. At a later date the excavations revealed a small chantry adjoining the south side, as at Gloucester Cathedral (Lady Chapel).

  5. Digge for the vestries on the south choir wall--there is somewhat left here, and there is alsoe a chantry under the window by the crosse.

  6. The arrow indicates the position of a conjectural north chantry (see text).

  7. With those graceful chantries, which adorn most of our minsters, are closely connected the service books of the middle ages, for it was usual to insert in the blank spaces of the collects the names of the founders of the chantry chapels.

  8. And aye the mass-priest sings his song, And patters many a prayer, And the chantry bell tolls loud and long, And aye the lamp burns there.

  9. Examining first Vaughan's Chantry or Trinity Chapel, we find a very beautiful example of Perpendicular work.

  10. With the exception of Vaughan's Chantry and the ante-chapel, all the building is roofless, exposed to the storms and rains of this exposed headland, and pitifully beseeches a new roof and shelter.

  11. The Chantry of Abbot Seabrooke (1457), the builder of the tower, is at the east of this aisle, much mutilated.

  12. Lochard, the precentor, some chantry chapels which we shall notice later, and the enlargement of the north porch.

  13. Bishop Gower added the sedilia, founded a chantry here, and made sundry other alterations of a Decorated character.

  14. The Chantry of the Holy Ghost in the south-west corner of this transept is a Norman structure.

  15. Opposite this chantry is the Russell Chantry, founded by Bishop Russell (d.

  16. On the north of the central aisle is the Chantry of Waynflete, the founder of Magdalen College, Oxford; on the south that of Cardinal Beaufort.

  17. The iron-work is good, and such chapels are rare, the Chantry of Edward IV.

  18. As they approached the chantry Kate laid a hand upon his arm.

  19. Meet me by the ruined chantry where we have sat so oft.

  20. Cuthbert, the night I went forth to thee in the chantry our father missed me from the house.

  21. It is commonly supposed that these chantry priests were concerned only with the special altars at which they ministered.

  22. Instances might be multiplied to any extent of the obligation laid on chantry priests to attend and assist the rector or vicar in the services.

  23. To many churches also, but by no means to all, chantry endowments were made; i.

  24. At Nottingham indeed the parishioners of St Mary's made formal protest; stating that in their parish there were "1,400 houseling people and that the vicar there had no other priest to help but the two chantry priests.

  25. Sometimes quite a considerable number of chantry priests were attached to a parish church.

  26. And in some churches there were no chantry priests at all, and yet there are stalls.

  27. When all chantry endowments were confiscated by Edward VI.

  28. In 1505 Margaret Blade, widow, endowed a chantry of Our Lady in Kildewick parish for a priest who, in addition to his special duties, was to help Divine service in the choir and to help the curate in time of necessity.

  29. In village churches, however, the boys would be trained, sometimes by a chantry priest if he was under statutory obligation to do so, more often by the parish clerk.

  30. But that this was not the case, at any rate universally, is apparent from the terms of the institution of the Willeby chantry in Halifax parish church.

  31. The common theory is that they were intended for the use of the rector or vicar and the parish clerk, and of any chantry priests who might be attached to the church.

  32. We may take it therefore that seats in the chancel were required not only for the parish priest and the parish clerk, but in some cases for chantry priests as well.

  33. St. Leonard, at Lancaster, with power to appoint the chantry priest to officiate in the said hospital.

  34. One of the most beautiful Scottish examples of a late segmental arched doorway, which is figured here, is that of the vestry or chantry chapel of Bothwell Church, Lanarkshire.

  35. It was in the year 1472 the residence of two of the chantry priests of the Priory Church.

  36. The house which the Prior of Hexham held in virtue of his prebend of Salton afterwards became the home of the chantry priests and was known as St. William’s College.

  37. There was also a large number of chantry priests.

  38. The westernmost bay of the aisle has been divided into two storeys, the upper of which now contains part of the mechanism of the organ, but is thought to have been once a chantry chapel.

  39. He rebuilt the chapel of the Palace and founded a chantry in it.

  40. He helped to found the chantry of St. Wilfrid, and is buried in the Choir.

  41. On the pavement south of the altar is a piscina, which (if this be its original position) must have belonged to a chapel or chantry behind the high altar--possibly the chantry of the Holy Trinity subtus altare.

  42. The piscina probably belonged to the chantry of Our-Lady-in-the-Lady-loft.

  43. This aisle was also the site of the chantry of St. Andrew.

  44. Later in this century a chantry chaplain is found engaging in dishonest trade; priests fight; laymen assault one another in the minster during service.

  45. There is an instance in 1546 of the Vicars, chantry priests, and deacons being allowed to take part in a Chapter meeting.

  46. In 1334 one John Warrener, of Studley Roger, founded here a chantry of two if not three priests.

  47. The date of its origin has been placed shortly before 1438, in which year a chantry was founded in its chapel.

  48. The monument is of rare artistic merit, as is the chantry close by, which he built for "twey preestes" to say masses for his soul.

  49. It is the double chantry exacted by the Pope as the price of a dispensation to marry his cousin.

  50. The chantry which had been founded in the reign of Edward III.

  51. We give at length the history of a chantry at Ipswich, as an illustration of these personal chantries.

  52. In some cases it is probable that the common human desire to be remembered after death took this shape; a chantry was a monument; and a monument of living men keeping a name in remembrance has very respectable countenance.

  53. His body lies, too, where it should lie, in his own abbey, beneath an elegant chantry raised nearly three centuries later to his memory by a pious abbot.

  54. The remains may be seen, too, of a chantry opening into the south side of the choir through a highly ornamental archway.

  55. This chantry was founded by the Black Prince in 1363 to commemorate his marriage with his cousin Joan, the "Fair Maid of Kent.

  56. The ordinance of the chantry founded by him in the crypt contains the phrase, Ad honorem Sancte Trinitatis quam peculiari devocione semper colimus.

  57. The church, which is said to have been a chantry chapel founded by Robert Fitzurse, Reginald's brother, has been completely rebuilt; its only antiquities are the W.

  58. At Adscombe, near Seven Wells' Combe, are the remains of a chantry which is said to have belonged to the monastery at Athelney.

  59. The chantry which was served by the priests who resided here, no longer exists.

  60. At its foot is a slab with incised figure of a chantry priest of unknown identity.

  61. Two or three examples will serve to make clear the nature of the provision for education made by the chantry bequests.

  62. The record of the chantry founded at Newland by Richard Gryndour, however, may be referred to.

  63. The chantry certificate relating to this college stated that:-- "There ys a provost and three fellows being all preistes whereof one dothe kepe a free scole of grammar according to the foundacion.

  64. At the school which the chantry priest was required to teach, he was entitled to charge "scolers lerning gramer, 8d.

  65. In the same year he, in his temporal capacity as Earl of a County Palatine, grants a licence in mortmain, authorising the chantry to hold lands and to make the chantry priest a corporation.

  66. Among the records of the chantry schools, six are mentioned as teaching writing; see E.

  67. 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.

  68. In 1522 the establishment of clergy consisted of a vicar, eleven parochial priests and two chantry priests.

  69. Many chantry priests on the other hand had other duties and took part in other services than the daily mass for which the chantry was founded.

  70. Having amassed a great estate in monastery and chantry lands, Hales founded the Free School in Coventry, the Church of the White Friars being at first used for the purpose.

  71. Dugdale says that Allesley's chantry was founded in the time of Edward I, at the altar of St. Thomas the Martyr, "in a chapel near adjoining to the church porch.

  72. A chantry known as Tale's was probably attached to this chapel, as the salary of the priest, £5 6s.

  73. Dugdale enumerates six chantries so that it is evident that here as often elsewhere some of the parochial priests derived the whole or a part of their support from their performance of the duties of chantry priests.

  74. The chantry priest of Our Lady at St. Peter's Church also died.

  75. In July the archdeacon of Coventry and a chantry priest at Holy Trinity were carried off.

  76. It had been agreed, shortly before the scourge had fallen upon England, that the monastery should for this benefaction endow a chantry of two secular priests.

  77. Bishop Waynfleet's chantry is in the same style, and has been kept in excellent repair by the trustees of his foundation at Magdalene College.

  78. The oldest portions are the nave, the chantry chapels, which are apsidal and are on either side of the choir, and the crypt.

  79. In the Chantry Chapel there is an altar-tomb to Arthur, Prince of Wales and son to Henry VII.

  80. The vaulting of the transepts and the chantry of Bishop Nix dates from the sixteenth century.

  81. At the Cathedral door the prior met the procession, and the great bishop-builder was laid to rest in the beautiful chantry he had himself prepared.

  82. Fox's chantry was carefully restored by Corpus Christi College, Oxford; and that of Waynflete by Magdalen College, as a mark of reverence and esteem for the memory of their respective founders.

  83. He became Bishop of Ely in 1509, and is buried in the Ely Chantry at Manchester.

  84. It was a private chantry built and endowed by the Stanley family, of which the Earls of Derby were members.

  85. Three steps and a screen divide this chantry from the larger =Jesus Chapel=.

  86. The fourth brass is in the next chantry toward the east, and is that of Robert Brassie.

  87. William Towne, who is buried in the second chantry from the east, to which I have already referred as being the first roofed in.

  88. The next is that of Robert Hacumblen, in the second chantry from the west on the same side.

  89. Until 1898 this chantry had a boarded floor above the slab, the fillet round not being visible.

  90. He built, or began, a chantry on the south wall of the choir, which was destroyed by Thoresby.

  91. Close by was the Chapel of St. Stephen, in which was the chantry of the Scropes, and so many offerings in memory of the archbishop were deposited there that it increased in riches up to the Reformation.

  92. The works of the clocks have been renewed many times, and are now placed in the disused chantry of Sub-Chanter Sylke, situated in the northeast corner of the transept, just below the ancient clock.


  93. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chantry" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.