Chantries

In addition to the Chantries were the _Obits_ held by the Dean and

Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870

The records of the Dissolution of the Chantries show how much town property must have been held by them, while from these and other sources we learn the extent of their belongings in tenements, messuages, rent charges and the like.

The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse

Trinity and Corpus Christi Gilds, with various almshouses and the possessions of the majority of the Chantries; while previously at the

The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse

This was the foundation of Chantries designed primarily for the maintenance of a priest or priests to say mass daily or otherwise for the soul's health of the founder, his family and forbears.

The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains Frederick W. Woodhouse

The chapter being secular, the minster escaped the ruin that fell on the monasteries under Henry VIII, but was dissolved in 1547 under the "Colleges and Chantries Act" of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 2: Assizes-Browne 1840-1916 1913

Chantries were also sometimes built and maintained by a local guild, such as the Guild of the Holy Ghost at Beccles, and the Palmers 'Guild at Ludlow.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Chantries and guilds were suppressed, and their revenues confiscated, images in the churches, and then altars and vestments were removed and destroyed, while the material desecration was only typical of the outrages done to the ancient liturgy of Catholic worship in the first and second Books of

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 5: Diocese-Fathers of Mercy 1840-1916 1913

Chantries comes up to St. Martha's, at the foot of the hill a close-cropped aisle of down grass, and nearer the top a loose, sandy path among pines.

Highways and Byways in Surrey Eric Parker 1912

Side Chantries were then, or shortly afterwards, added.

St. John's College, Cambridge Robert Forsyth Scott 1891

These Chantries were founded for saying masses for the souls of the departed, even to the end of the world.

Old St. Paul's Cathedral William Benham 1870