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Example sentences for "prebendal"

Lexicographically close words:
preambles; prearranged; prearrangement; prease; prebend; prebendaries; prebendary; prebends; precarious; precariously
  1. A passage at the side leads to the Liberty, where are some of the prebendal houses.

  2. Sixty-four of these remain, fifty of which belonged to the prebendal stalls of the upper row, though they were removed from their proper position at the restoration.

  3. Soon after, when he was living at Winchester, he refused to allow the royal harbinger to use his prebendal house for the lodging of Nell Gwynn, on the occasion of Charles II.

  4. It has all the air of a prebendal residence, but if it was ever connected with the church, that connection has long ceased.

  5. He ordered the Canons to look to their prebendal houses.

  6. Of the old prebendal houses some had been sold, or let; others, perhaps, were occupied by the Prebendaries of the new foundation.

  7. Whether this house or its immediately western neighbour were ever prebendal residences it is now difficult to say.

  8. The Canons may at first have lived in common, but as early as 1301, and probably earlier, they were dwelling in separate prebendal houses round the Church.

  9. The prebendal houses fell into disrepair, and in some cases a plot had been assigned, but no house had been built.

  10. Between St. Anne's Hospital and Bondgate Green Bridge stands the =Thorp Prebendal House=, now divided into several dwellings.

  11. She once made a personal application to Jovellanos in favour of a certain candidate for a prebendal stall.

  12. The main arch is now blocked up, forming a wall to one of the prebendal houses.

  13. For many years it was used as a flower pot in one of the prebendal gardens, whence it was rescued by Dean Monk and ultimately restored to its original use in the south end of the western transept.

  14. The son of the prebendal commissary called for me, and I found in his father a most eccentric, whimsical sort of man.

  15. The Prebendal lands also, as we have seen, were leased in the fourth year of this reign to John Leveson, for the sum of 6 pounds 6s.

  16. By the end of the fifteenth century the chantries numbered about 60; and 36 chantry priests were incorporated into a community, and lived in St. William's College, which was originally the prebendal house of the Prior of Hexham.

  17. There were Prebendal Schools under the oversight of the prebendaries themselves, and others "which are maintained by local managers for the instruction of their parishioners in faith and letters.

  18. The ground near the cathedral, occupied by the deanery and the prebendal residences, was called the Boundaries.

  19. Lighting up the tower of the cathedral, illuminating its pinnacles, glittering through the elm trees, bringing forth into view even the dark old ivy on the prebendal houses.

  20. Close by, were the prebendal houses; some built of red stone, some covered with ivy, all venerable with age.

  21. She stopped at the low wall, extending from the side of the boat-house to some of the prebendal residences, and glanced over at the river.

  22. He held a prebendal stall in the diocese, one of the best residences in the close, and the two large rectories of Crabtree Canonicorum and Stogpingum.

  23. Lord Grey appointed him to a Prebendal Stall at St Paul's in exchange for the inferior one at Bristol.

  24. It was a Prebendal Stall at St Paul's, given to him by Lord Grey.

  25. His father had held a prebendal stall at Ely in times when prebendal stalls were worth more than they are at present, and having also been possessed of a living in the neighbourhood, had amassed a considerable sum of money.

  26. Prebendal stalls are for older men than he--for men who have earned them, and who at the end of their lives want some ease.

  27. She feared that Greek from Chaldicotes, even when he came with the present of a prebendal stall in his hands.

  28. Entering the Choir we see on each side of the doorway three prebendal stalls with misereres, on which are carved some foliage.

  29. On the south of the church is the College, containing the Deanery and prebendal houses.

  30. I can remember, if nobody else does, how a fine prebendal hall was wantonly pulled down in the North Liberty not many years ago.

  31. Such were the dignitaries, each, besides his share of the general revenue, having his own special prebendal estate.

  32. As a Prebendary he was independent, holding his own prebendal estate like any other holder of a benefice.

  33. And mark again that, now that all the prebendal estates are transferred to the Ecclesiastical Commissioners, it may fairly be doubted whether there are any Prebendaries left, save the few who were appointed before those changes began.

  34. Three weeks later, Lord Chancellor Lyndhurst, yielding to private friendship what the Whigs had refused to political loyalty, appointed the Rector of Foston to a Prebendal Stall in Bristol Cathedral.

  35. The prebendal stall at Bristol carried with it the incumbency of Halberton, near Tiverton; and Sydney Smith exchanged the living of Foston for that of Combe Florey in Somerset, which could be held conjointly with Halberton.

  36. A beautiful arch at the end leads to another series, and beyond this, in one of the prebendal houses, is a vaulted room which seems to have been erected about the period of the transition from the Norman style to the Early English.

  37. The basin of this font was, for many years, in one of the prebendal gardens, where it was placed upon the base of an old Norman pillar, and used for holding flowers, but was removed by Dr.

  38. There was an entrance into this chapel, from the infirmary church, through an arch, which is still standing, the chapel having been converted into a prebendal house.

  39. What was the reason for granting in 1359 the first-fruits of the prebendal stalls to the fabric?

  40. The prebendal house of Stillington occupied the site of the present Deanery.

  41. Southwards stood other prebendal houses and the old Deanery.


  42. The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "prebendal" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.