How To Use calefactory In A Sentence
- The walls of the church, with one tower, still stand, and there are very substantial remains of the chapter house, cloister, refectory, and calefactory. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 6: Fathers of the Church-Gregory XI
- When this was over, after a further short interval the evening reading or Collation took place in the chapter-house, after which the monks were at liberty to go and warm themselves at the one great fire kept up for the purpose in the calefactory; and then compline was sung, followed by Our Lady's Anthem. The King's Achievement
- In the more carefully constructed monasteries this apartment was so placed as to adjoin the calefactory, which allowed the introduction of hot air, when needed. Bibliomania in the Middle Ages
- East of the cloister garth — 100 feet square — stands the calefactory, its vaulted roof upheld by two pillars; this long served for a The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss
- calefactory," heated by flues, or in which a fire was kept up, where the monks might retire occasionally to warm themselves, was provided in English monasteries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
- Cistercian arrangement, with the cloister south of the church, and grouped round it the chapter-house, calefactory, refectory, and other loca regularia. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux
- To these may be added the calefactory, the parlour, or locutorium, the almonry, and the offices of the obedientiaries; but these additional buildings fitted into the general plan where they best might, and their disposition differed somewhat in the various monasteries. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 1: Aachen-Assize
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- The festival went down Saturday within the calefactory confines of Coney Island. The Siren Festival : Edward Champion’s Reluctant Habits
- Leading out of it is the ancient "calefactory," where the fire for the censers and thuribles was preserved. Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See
