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Example sentences for "collegiate church"

  • The beautiful Church of St. Giles was re built in the 15th century, and was erected into a collegiate church by Pope Paul II.

  • The land belonging to this chapel became in the sixteenth century part of the endowment of a collegiate church founded at Lochwinnoch by Lord Sempill.

  • After her death her relics were enshrined in a collegiate church in the town of Rhode, and she became the chief patron of the place.

  • A dormant city on a baking plain and an immense cathedral pointing back to centuries of desperate wars between Christians and Moors; a collegiate church, far older still, which served as cathedral when Alfonso VII.

  • Under the circumstances, it is not surprising that the gratitude of later monarchs should have erected a church on the site of the famous battle, and should have raised it to a collegiate church.

  • In the latter part of the XII century he built Montreal's collegiate church, one of the earliest Gothic ventures in the province, showing a simultaneous use of Romanesque and Gothic vaulting.

  • A benefice or prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church; a right to a place in chapter and to a portion of its revenues; the dignity or emoluments of a canon.

  • An assembly of monks, or of the prebends and other clergymen connected with a cathedral, conventual, or collegiate church, or of a diocese, usually presided over by the dean.

  • A member of a cathedral chapter; a person who possesses a prebend in a cathedral or collegiate church.

  • The choir was lengthened, a clerestory added and the roof raised, and ere the century had elapsed it was raised to the dignity of a collegiate church.

  • In the like sort it seems probable that the church of Saint Andrew at Wells, founded by King Ine as a collegiate church, was made into a cathedral church by King Eadward the Elder.

  • Sometimes the cathedral church was a monastic church, sometimes a collegiate church; in each case the church was known as a cathedral.

  • A collegiate church consisted of a number of clergy forming a corporate body and living under the supervision of a Dean or Provost and responsible to the bishop.

  • It might be held in the open air, in the cloisters of a monastery, in some part of a collegiate church, or possibly in some more suitable place.

  • In its place, arose afterwards, a collegiate church, which M.

  • The latter consists of clergy in Priest's Orders, who undertake to place themselves at the disposal of the Bishop for work in connection with the diocese or Collegiate Church.

  • A Collegiate Church; impropriate to the King's Majestie or the Dean of Windsor; value of lands belonging to it is 600 pounds per annum.

  • Collegiate Church of St. George, at Windsor, annexed Wolverhampton to that chapel royal.


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