churchwarden

How To Use churchwarden In A Sentence

• The squire took down from the mantel his long-stemmed "churchwarden" pipe. Neville Trueman, the Pioneer Preacher : a tale of the war of 1812
• She managed to convey to him -- without hurting his aged feelings or overwhelming him with embarrassment -- that if he preferred a clean churchwarden or his old briarwood, he need not feel obliged to smoke the new pipe. The Shuttle
• The Rector thanked the churchwardens, sidesmen, bellringers, church cleaners, guild and all church workers for the assistance they had given during the past year.
• And in villages they are commonly made churchwardens, sidesmen, aleconners, now and then constables, and many times enjoy the name of head boroughs. Chronicle and Romance (The Harvard Classics Series)
• Today, aged 77, he is taking more of a back-seat in local affairs, choosing to stay on only as a parish councillor although he has recently become a churchwarden at the village's Church of the Epiphany.
• Villagers played an essential role in the upkeep of the local church and its property, which was handled by churchwardens on the parish council (fabrique).
• A letter in the parish magazine said: ‘What a shame the churchwardens at St Mary's are unable to show a little Christian spirit with regard to their removal of all flowers and pots from graves.’
• Nowhere else surely has a Gothic architect approached so closely to the ideals of his "churchwarden" imitators of the beginning of this century. The Cathedral Church of York Bell's Cathedrals: A Description of Its Fabric and A Brief History of the Archi-Episcopal See
• Ronald Hutton's examination of parochial documents, primarily churchwardens ' accounts, led him to conclude that a flourishing and popular pre-Reformation church was destroyed by government policy.
• A meeting between the town council, churchwardens and the Archdeacon of Colchester to discuss the churchyard is set for April 30.