But in later days there is definite evidence as to the practice of putting stalls in the chancels of parish churches.
There were in the city and suburbs thirteen large conventual establishments and 120 parish churches.
The dilemma is that in parish churches, especially in country places, the adult male alto is not to be had, and the choice is between boy altos, and no altos at all.
He does not regard boy altos as desirable in cathedrals, but in parish churches, where no adult male altos are to be had, they are, no doubt, in place.
An amusing book, entitled Hints to Some Churchwardens, with a few Illustrations Relative to the Repair and Improvement of Parish Churches, was published in 1825.
We can tell something of their glories from those which were happily spared and converted into cathderals or parish churches.
Only three Cistercian churches remain partly in use as parish churches, viz.
With the growth of a well-to-do middle class came the tendency to devote benefactions which at an earlier date would have been given to monasteries to parish churches.
Benefactions continued under the procedure established by this act, and the monasteries thus became owners of a very large number of parish churches.
Open-air preaching is anything but a modern invention, for long before the erection of parish churches it was the recognised method of addressing the people.
The truth is that many of our churchyards have an antiquity far greater than that of the churches, as many of them constituted the open-air meeting-places of our Saxon forefathers long before the erection of parish churches.
This letter is still to be found painted on boards in parish churches, and as conspicuously placed as the Lord's Prayer or the Ten Commandments.
There are 52 parish churchesin the same diocese which have vicars endowed upon them, better served and maintained than the others, yet badly.
Parish Churches, which were the centres of the religious life of the laity, were everywhere.
The background of dwellings and shops, built in a similar style, is cut by a few winding streets, and studded with the towers, spires, and roofs of the multitude of parish churches.
Some have been known since the beginning of the revival of Bohemian literature, while others have been discovered quite recently, sometimes in parish churches or the libraries of remote monasteries.
The letter continues to declare that in future no sermons shall be preached except in "cathedrals, collegiate churches, parish churches, and churches belonging to monasteries.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parish churches" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
