parsonage

Example Sentences

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If any place should be haunted, it is the Brontë parsonage.

From Los Angeles Times • May 14, 2026

Until very recently, so did the British architect Ben Pentreath, who with his husband, plantsman Charlie McCormick, transformed a parsonage garden in the Bride Valley into an Instagram sensation.

From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 11, 2026

The parsonage between the village and the moors where the Brontes lived with their clergyman father and brother, Branwell, is now a museum dedicated to their memory.

From Barron's • Feb. 28, 2026

In 1820, the Brontes moved to the parsonage in Howarth, where the sisters wrote masterpieces including Emily's Wuthering Heights and Charlotte's Jane Eyre.

From BBC • Dec. 21, 2023

But he’s the second-oldest child in the parsonage now, the oldest boy.

From "Vincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers" by Deborah Heiligman