vestry
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In the vestry, surrounded by racks of well-pressed white surplices and brightly coloured vestments, I met Ian and Paul, one of the couples he has blessed.
From BBC ● Dec. 24, 2025
But the church has worked with the Bats in Churches team to find a solution - they've built a sealed-off loft conversion above the vestry.
From BBC ● Oct. 30, 2025
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
Church records show that the vestry also paid for goods and services from dozens of local workers, including one woman, Mary Wilson, who served as cook for those building the church.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 15, 2023
Julian and he were talking—in jocular, mocking, pedantic Latin—like a couple of priests tidying the vestry before a mass.
From "The Secret History" by Donna Tartt
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
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
The vestries themselves ejected men of that kind and services could be maintained by readers.
From Religious Life of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century The Faith of Our Fathers by G. MacLaren (George MacLaren) Brydon
At the present time, 1901, further building operations are being carried on in the yard on the south side of the church, a new and larger chapter house and vestries being in course of erection.
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 Rev. Thomas Perkins
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