vestry

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

According to Ronaldi, the vestry at Pohick Church decided to post the plaques to honor its history and to acknowledge the role of slavery in this storyline.

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

In the town centre, Heidi Jacobsen, who runs the Hope Pantry in the vestry of a beautiful church, is tackling a different problem.

From BBC ● Oct. 17, 2022

The church supper is the grandfather of the country club, just as the Thursday poetry reading in the basement under the vestry sired the little theater.

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

As little therefore as the vestries or as the local boards is the Corporation directly represented in the London County Council, which was created by the Act of 1888.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)

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 Cutter, Calvin

All the then existing parishes and vestries of London sent members elected by the vestries to this central body.

From Social Transformations of the Victorian Age A Survey of Court and Country by Escott, T. H. S. (Thomas Hay Sweet)