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

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

In 1478 Thomas Whinfell, one of the chantry priests, was bound “to keep yearly a sufficient Grammar School, taking of the scholars of the said school scolagia et custumaria secundum antiquam consuetudinem scoloe prædictæ.”

From Bygone Cumberland and Westmorland by Scott, Daniel

From the easternmost of the three bays of the Jesus Chapel formerly projected the Hulme chantry.

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 Perkins, Thomas, Rev.