There is a St. Tarkin's Well at Fordyce and another in the parish of Kilsyth, Stirlingshire, is thought to own this saint as patron.
Thus the parishof Kinglassie, near Kirkcaldy, seems to have been named after him, and in the neighbourhood is a spring of fine water known as St. Glass's Well.
Abbey St. Bathans, a parish in Berwickshire, takes its name from this saint.
In Ayrshire is the parish of Barr, and in Forfarshire that of Inch bare.
In the parishof Southend, Argyllshire, are the remains of a small building called St. Coivin's Chapel.
The parish of Dalserf, Lanarkshire, formed at one time the chapelry of St. Machan, and was known as Machanshire.
Thus in the parish of Kilkerran, Kintyre, is an island now known as Davar; it was formerly called St. Barre's Island.
Angus Fair" was formerly held at King's House, in the parish of Balquhidder, on the Wednesday after the second Tuesday in August.
The ruins of the saint's church in the parish of Kingarth, Bute, form an object of great interest to antiquarians, and stand amid surroundings of extraordinary beauty and charm.
Let the farmers in each parish meet and pass resolutions calling upon their representatives in parliament to take the tax off rat-killing dogs.
Let there be a reward offered of so much per head for dead rats, and let there be one person in each parish appointed to pay for the same.
Along Red River the steamboat clerks graduated the fare according to the parish where the passenger came on board.
You may remember, General, that you will subject the parish of Madison to an expenditure of ninety thousand dollars for new levees.
He promptly replied: "The parish of Madison gave a large majority in favor of secession; did it not?
At Varallo, over and above his work on the Sacro Monte, there is an exceedingly beautiful Madonna by him, in the parish church of S.
Selma sent six delegates who met with the Birmingham suffragists at the Parish House of the Church of the Advent, where the Alabama Equal Suffrage Association was organized and a constitution and by-laws adopted.
Bishops and priests were interviewed and a number of the latter were persuaded to speak at the meetings held in twenty-six prominent parish school halls in New York City.
From parish after parish in the State came reports of precincts not even being opened on account of the epidemic and the weather.
This year the Teachers' Political Equality Club and the Newcomb College Suffrage Club became branches of the Party, and the Orleans Parish Branch was organized.
It held open air rallies, organized by legislative districts, which are known as "parishes," and in the seventeen wards of Orleans parish congressional chairmen were appointed by the beginning of 1914.
Arnold of England lectured for the Concord society in the Parish House (Episcopalian).
Headquarters were opened in New Orleans; the parish committees which were organized in 1915 were found to be ready for active work.
It so happened that the cure of souls in the parish of Groby had been intrusted for the last two or three years to a young, energetic, but not very opulent curate.
Why, Lucius, we always had the heaviest crops of hay in the parish off that meadow.
He was too jealous to allow the Pope to officiate in public at any religious ceremony, even on Christmas Day, on which festival the Sovereign Pontiff had to go to the parish church to say a low Mass.
If the parish priest could have the singing, it would, of course, be most desirable and very edifying, but not at all necessary.
Hence, parish priests and confessors should endeavour to withdraw their subjects and penitents from them".
Hence in the same preface it charges the parish priest to instruct three or four clerics in the ceremonies, "ut sacrae actiones, si nequeant solemniter, decenter saltem peragantur".
Stonefield Street, in the Parish of St. Mary, Islington, at No.
Fleet Street, in the Parish of St. Dunstan in the West, in the City of London, Publisher, at No.
Also any particulars of the family, from the commencement of their residence at High Ashes, in the parish of Ashton-under-Lyne, co.
The preference for small parish churches, treated as audience-rooms rather than as places of worship, has interfered with the development of noble types of church-buildings.
The purely Gothic churches and cathedrals, except parish churches--in which England is very rich--are not nearly as numerous in England as in France.
Following this conception of church-planning, a number of interesting parishchurches and a few cathedrals were built in various parts of France in which side-recesses or chapels took the place of side-aisles.
There were, however, many important parish churches and civil or domestic edifices erected within this period.
Wren was conspicuously successful in the designing of parishchurches in London.
Many other abbeys, parish churches, and a few cathedrals in Central and Northern France especially.
The +Marienkirche+ at Wolfenbüttel (1608) is a fair sample of the parish churches of the second period.
There were parish magazines and temperance monthlies, there were religious almanacs for the years we have lost; by some sporting chance there were even a few back numbers of the "Monumental Mason.
Be it known, then, that in the same parish where this seat stood there lived a young girl whom Joseph (though the best of sons and brothers) longed more impatiently to see than his parents or his sister.
But she assured him, if he died, the parish should be at the expense of the funeral.
Then the justice insisted that Mr Adams should sit down and take a glass with him; and the parson of the parish delivered him back the manuscript without saying a word; nor would Adams, who plainly discerned his ignorance, expose it.
He's had it for years, long before anybody even heard of Parish Councils.
If we give these chaps Parish Councils, they can all get allotments, and then of course (quotes again) "we shall multiply the productive power of the land tenfold.
What have allotments got to do with Parish Councils?
What have they brought the Parish Councils Bill in for?
There, perched up against the sky-line, is the ancient parish church of St. Eanswythe, in modern times frescoed and bedizened and given up to high church practices.
The ancient parish church of Newington lifts its grey battlemented tower away from the village prominently to one side of the old coach road, but it is surprisingly long before one reaches it, down the winding lane.
Abbesses and nuns and the good folks of Minster for many hundreds of years have all found rest at last, and most of their names are forgotten, save by the casual antiquary who turns over the yellow pages of the parish registers.
The parishowes its name to the fact that the manor was anciently the property of Christ Church Monastery, Canterbury.
There must actually be sufficient inhabitants in the parish to quarter fill the building!
The population of the whole parish of Old Romney, with its outlying hamlets and cottages, numbers not more than a hundred and fifty, and of village there is but this lonely group of church, vicarage, and two farmhouses.
The tradition of the parish runs that a riding-officer from Sandwich, called Anthony Gill, lost his life here in the early part of the eighteenth century, while in pursuit of a smuggler.
The adjoining parish of St. Mary the Virgin is more fortunate.
This is no place to tell how in the course of centuries that Church fell away from its high ideals: here still survive neighbourly farm and parish place of worship, to prove that they once existed.
The manor house and the adjoining manorial chapel form the whole of the place, except some scattered few cottages out of sight, for whose inhabitants the chapel serves the function of parish church.
Away by the roadside is Bilsington village, its moated Court Lodge Farm and parish church grouped together.
But are there not enough pauper children for the parish to keep?
The Vicar of the Parish had said one word to his lady re Claud Wilton--a very short but highly expressive word that he had learned at college.
The new doctor has got the parish work, but he isn't worked to death.
It was mentioned that the Parish of St. Thomas would be powerfully represented by its Bargee lodgers.
Descending the hill, the parish church of Handsworth presents itself to view, and a short distance before you arrive at it, is the parsonage-house, where the Rev.
In thisparish the following works are carried on in an extensive manner:-- Blair and Stevenson, soap and lead.
You leave Birmingham, through Aston-street and the adjacent buildings in the parish of Aston, which extend for a considerable distance along the road.
The land in this parish being very suitable for making of tiles, innumerable quantities are there manufactured, for the supply of Birmingham.
The superficial contents of the parish is two thousand, eight hundred, and sixty-four acres.
In the village is a neat place of worship, erected by Sir Orlando Bridgeman, who endowed it with the tythes of the parish, it being a chapel of ease to the parish of Aston.
Ascending the hill there is a delightful view over the enclosures, commanding the villages of Harborne and King's Norton; the two parish churches being conspicuous objects.
The said Bishop Vesey erected fifty-one stone houses in the parish and also a free grammar school, which he liberally endowed with land, and ordained by the statutes, that the master should be a layman, which is strictly adhered to.
The removal of the Board-room to Church street, the Pavilion property, has been a great convenience to the poor, and it has been the means of preventing even a hint that the present Board feast at the parish expense.
The situation thus selected combines two essentials, proximity to the Parish Church, with which the founder connected the charity, and a central position, so important to a day-school for the children of the poor.
The stocks in the Market place, and the parishpound at the back of the Old Church were then in vogue.
Besides the three principal manors, there are within the town and parish two other small manors, viz.
She was the widow of the late Mr. Robert Ackerson, who filled the offices of High Constable, Overseer, Churchwarden, and Parish Assessor of Brighton.
Chapel Royal consecrated, and an Act of Parliament procured, securing it as a Chapel of Ease to the Parish Church.
To the Churchwardens & Overseers of ye poore of ye parish of Brighthelmstone, in ye County of Sussex, or to any of them.
Were the seven sisters of Tottenham those seven daughters who, with such comically lugubrious looks, kneel in a diminishing row along the Barkham monument in itsParish Church?
The greenest memory of this parish and the next is Charles Lamb’s, who ended his days at Edmonton in a little house on the way up to the church.
For several years his home had been in the adjacent parish of Enfield, to whose hilly and shady beauties let us now set our face.
We need not ask too closely where Hanwell begins, this suburb being a little shy of its name, shadowed by a huge County Lunatic Asylum, which really belongs to the more idyllic parish of Norwood, to the south.
Close to Sunbury is Upper Halliford, by which a road takes a straighter line into the neighbouring parish of Shepperton, cutting across a bend of the river opposite Walton-on-Thames.
Even further this parish spreads along the lower heights beyond Hampstead and Highgate, including dependencies with by-names of their own.
Into the neighbour parish Tottenham merges without a break in what was “all one continued street” so far back as Defoe’s time.
The chapel is rather older, but till two generations ago the boys attended the Parish Church.
A friend met me on the street, and asked if I had seen the farm in Kilmalcolm Parish that was to be sold.
The clergyman of the parish pleaded with me to take at least two or three.
When I told this many years afterwards to one of the best parish priests I have ever known, he gave me, from his own experience, some instances of answers to prayer which are certainly worth reading.
Walking his parish in the afternoon, he believed that a voice three times urged him to go.
Since the new marriage act, we, who belong to the country magistrates, have gained a priority over the rest of the parish in matrimonial news.
These were the staple of my endowments; besides which, the parish priest had taught me a little Latin, a little French, and a little geometry.
It seems to imply that the parish is a mere system; an artificial arrangement of man's invention.
Population increased so rapidly that the old parish bounds were broken up; the old parish staff became too small for working purposes.
Lysons says "Little Shaftesbury House in this parish (near Kensington gravel pits), the seat of Ambrose Godfrey, Esq.
Behind, in Hudson's Place, are St. Peter's Mission House and parish room.
Four-fifths of the income derived from the three houses on this site are devoted to the maintenance of the district churches in the parish, the remainder going to the parish of St. Martin's.
The situation is extremely pleasant, and so uncommonly retired that a person residing here could hardly conceive himself to be in a parish adjoining that of St. George's, Hanover Square.
Part of the new parishwas transferred to St. Michael and All Angels in 1864.
In 1812 the Regent's Canal Company was incorporated and given authority to make and maintain a navigable canal from the Grand Junction Canal in the parish of Paddington to the river Thames in the parish of Limehouse.
Newcourt says "the parish of Edgeware or Edgeworth consisteth of one main street .
The old parish church, named St. Mary's, stands to the north of the Harrow Road.
Its predecessor was dedicated to St. James, a saint to whom the present parish church has returned, and stood a little to the northward on the site of the present right of way.
A stream somewhat similar in course was the Tyburn, which also rose at Hampstead, but flowed through the parish of Marylebone, the ancient Tyburnia.
Loftie says that then "the parish for the fourth time changed its patron and reverted to its former saint.
She used to come with her aunt, and since Miss Morrison's death she has taken up some parish work.
When the church is once finished, so that the parish has a heart, we will attend to the head and build the schoolhouse.
And God twelve angels here will send, to guard this parish from end to end.
Again man comes into the wilderness, the high forests fall, huts and houses appear and a parish is founded--the soul belonging to olden times and to days long past lies in the flames of purgatory, is abandoned and forgotten.
Here stands the new church, and Winkelsteg shall it and the parish be called.
The settlement of this question would have been a welcome occasion for the people to assemble at the new tavern to christen the parish with Schnapps.
He has now adapted himself to the place, is intimately acquainted with each one of his parish children, and leads them by his example.
And when, after five-and-twenty years, their descendants enter the marriage state, may it be in the parish church by the Winkel bridge!
I have urged the people to choose a chief officer from among themselves, that there may be someone to issue orders, settle disputes, and keep the parish united.
The priest from Holdenschlag preached a sermon on the significance of the consecration and the parish church, and on the life of man from the baptismal font to the grave.
It is thus applied to a division of a parish under the Church Building Acts, originally called a "perpetual curacy," and the church serving such a division is properly a "district chapel.
He published sermons and lectures; A History of the Parish of Trinity Church, New York City (4 vols.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "parish" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
