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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

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

He also served on the vestry of St. Alban’s Episcopal Church in Washington and worked in its thrift shop.

From Washington Post ● Aug. 26, 2021

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

He was the father of a family; a well-known citizen of Dublin; a grave, white-cravated, pompous man of respectable exterior, always seen at vestries, and usually heading the lists of public charities.

From Roland Cashel Volume II (of II) by Charles James Lever

At the present time, 1901, further building operations are being carried on in the yard on the south side of the church, a new and larger chapter house and vestries being in course of erection.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Manchester A Short History and Description of the Church and of the Collegiate Buildings now known as Chetham's Hospital by Rev. Thomas Perkins

London parishes and vestries have most of them come forward and contributed, and already nearly a hundred drinking fountains have been erected by this Association. 

From About London by J. Ewing (James Ewing) Ritchie