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UK
/tʃˈɑːntɹi/
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NOUN
- an endowment for the singing of Masses
- a chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor
How To Use chantry In A Sentence
- They too had social selves, identities which ranged far outside church or chantry.
- The village is named after St Wrw, whose remains are said to be buried in the chantry chapel in the churchyard.
- Although apparently the last of the churches built at Maldon, it became the principal church of the town; Robert Darcy established a chantry there.
- Joseph Elianore obtained royal licence in 1338 to found a chantry there which during the 1340s he endowed with numerous lands and rents.
- His body rests in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, a small chantry chapel adjoining the north choir aisle and only completed in 1969.
- The now ruined Spofforth Castle was the base he established in the area and would have had a chantry chapel for private family worship.
- The now ruined Spofforth Castle was the base he established in the area and would have had a chantry chapel for private family worship.
- Between the chancel and the chantry is the large tomb covering the remains of Thomas Fiennes, second Lord Highways & Byways in Sussex
- The chantry schools were similar in character to the cathedral and canonicate schools. The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 13: Revelation-Stock
- His body rests in the King George VI Memorial Chapel, a small chantry chapel adjoining the north choir aisle and only completed in 1969.