chantry

Example Sentences

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One Friday toward the end of September the monks of the choir stood practicing in the chantry.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

At the lectern during rehearsals he turned the pages of the missal, a book of music notes large enough for all the Brothers to see as they stood in the chantry.

From "The Door in the Wall" by Marguerite de Angeli

This beautiful chantry, which is partly underground, has been used since as a sepulchre for the dead, a prison cell for the living,21 a receptacle for human bones, a coal cellar and heating chamber.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various

This chantry abounds in work characteristic of the Renaissance, extremely rare in England.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward

It was erected before A.D. 1292, as, during that year, Roger Levenoth, an inhabitant, endowed the chantry, with a house and 100 acres of land in Roydon.

From Ecclesiastical Curiosities by Various