chantry

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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

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

To make my lady's obsequies, My love a minster wrought, And in the chantry, service there Was sung by doleful thought.

From Harper's New Monthly Magazine, Vol. 1. No 1, June 1850 by Various

The date of the foundation of the chantry in which he lies is said to be 1329, and the mouldings and windows appear to testify its correctness. ב.

From Notes and Queries, Vol. IV, Number 110, December 6, 1851 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Various

All Souls' was designed by its Founder, Archbishop Chicheley, ad orandum as well as ad studendum; it was to serve the purpose of a chantry not less than of a College.

From Oxford and Her Colleges by Smith, Goldwin