Other tablets in the chantries commemorate various members of the College.
Much of the carved work in both these chantries was employed elsewhere in the buildings.
The Audley and Hungerford chantries are the most important left in a cathedral once rich in their kind, as the report of the alienation of their endowments proves.
He shifted the high altar from the choir to the extreme east end of the Lady Chapel, sacrificing several chantries and tombs to do so.
Beside this company of canons, vicars and choristers directly serving the cathedral, a number of chaplains served the various altars and chantries within it, which at the Dissolution numbered fifteen.
Is there any series of chantries in England more complete or more lovely than these at Winchester, or anywhere a finer fourteenth century monument than that of Bishop Wykeham?
The student of Gothic architecture should also give attention to the choir-screens, tombs, and chantries which embellish many of the abbeys and cathedrals.
So far it would seem that the road certainly passed over the crest of St. Catherine's, came down to the south of that hill, crossed at Shalford, and reached the Chantries by that passage.
It is certain that the prehistoric road begins again by the north-western corner of the Chantries Wood.
John Ulsthorpe, William Evesham, John Wigan, and other, found chantries there.
There was of older time buried, Nicholas Stanes, and Nicholas Braye; they foundedchantries there.
John Grantham and Nicholas Bull hadchantries there.
The chantries were suppressed, and their endowments confiscated, in the reign of Edward VI.
Chantries were endowments of estates by the sinners of that age for the benefit of having eternal masses sung for their departed souls.
These chantries were the last wrecks of the monastic lands.
A single church had often several chantries attached to it.
They began with the estates of the chantries and guilds, and rapidly extended to all sorts of property.
The system of ecclesiastical spoliation was also in 1546 rounded off, by the formal transfer to the crown of chantries which had not been swept away in the dissolution of the monasteries.
A list of those chantriesin a handwriting of the fourteenth century has been preserved; there are seventy-three of them.
The number of these chantries was countless; every arch in the aisles of the cathedrals contained some, where the service for the dead was sung; sometimes separate edifices were built with this view.
At once the Chantries Act, which was only for Henry's life, is dissolved naturally.
But within a year a fresh Chantries Act was passed and a new Commission appointed by the Protector and his Council.
The Chantry Commissioners made their report, but before many chantries were taken by the King, he died.
They therefore determined to dissolve the chantries and at the same time continue Grammar Schools, where they existed.
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.
So much that is of interest in the religious life of the period is connected with the chantries that it is worth while recording some of the scattered notices that have come down to us.
For a church of this size the chapels, altars andchantries were very numerous, there being probably fifteen altars in all.
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.
Dugdale enumerates six chantries so that it is evident that here as often elsewhere some of the parochial priests derived the whole or a part of their support from their performance of the duties of chantry priests.
No doubt there were such chantries existing, but to imagine that all followed this rule is wholly to mistake the purpose of such foundations.
As an example of specific bequests for pious purposes, we may take the following: Sir Gervase Clifton in 1491 gives many sums of money to churches in Yorkshire and to various chantries in Southwell Minster.
In thesechantries were established services for the dead commonly called “obits.
O ye citizens, if ye would turn but even the profits of your chantries and obits to the finding of the poor, what a politic and goodly provision!
In close connection with the subject of wills in pre-Reformation times is that of chantries and obits.
The church also is unusually rich in chantries and ancient monuments, secular and ecclesiastical.
Between the same chantry and the wall lies the tomb of Bishop de Rupibus, while in the space between the chantries of Beaufort and Waynflete lies the only ancient military effigy in the cathedral, a genuine relic of the fourteenth century.
There is a considerable amount of wall-space, only interrupted by the numerous imposing chantries erected on the floor.
The north and south sides of the feretory are flanked by the chantries of Bishops Gardiner and Fox, into which it opens.
The two small =chapels= which stand to the right and left of the doorway are those built as chantries by Bishops Russell and Longland.
The three chantries in the Perpendicular style which have been added to the angel choir were constructed at different periods by bishops of the diocese.
Declaration ofChantries in the Augmentation office.
The numerous chantries in the Minster were served by priests who also lived collegiately but at St. William's College.
Each parish church had a number of clergy besides the parish priest attached to it: the number varied from one to ten or more according to the number of chantries at the church.
It is not possible to examine or describe them adequately from the ambulatory only, and the most important are best viewed from the choir or presbytery, whence access to the chantries is obtained.
It may have been designed to surpass in glory the chantries previously existing in the building, and if so, the Countess, who was only twenty-one years of age, spared no expense in causing this beautiful work to be made.
One of the chief glories of Tewkesbury consists in the series of historic tombs and chantries which encircle the choir and presbytery and the surrounding ambulatory.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chantries" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
