vestry
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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
A week later, it was performed by Elizabeth John in the vestry of Tabor Chapel in Maesteg, Bridgend county.
From BBC ● Nov. 24, 2022
"We put out an appeal on Facebook and that brought people from outside the church, from different walks of life and faiths," said vestry member Samuel Stewart.
From BBC ● Nov. 13, 2022
He was a former vestry member and senior warden at Washington’s St. Patrick’s Episcopal Church, where he was a parishioner for more than 50 years.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 15, 2022
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
You wish to free yourself from dogmatic vestries.
From Thirty by O'Brien, Howard Vincent
He lies buried in the graveyard, on the left-hand side of the chapel, near the end of the little foot-path which leads round the building to the vestries.
From Curious Epitaphs by Various
Governor Nicholson, an extreme high-churchman, procured from the attorney-general, Northy, an opinion against this custom, and it was sent to all the vestries, with directions to put it on record.
From History of the Colony and Ancient Dominion of Virginia by Campbell, Charles
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