Besides the Chapter of St. Paul's, there were several other bodies of secular canons.
This brief list of the buildings in the old Cathedral Close will give some idea of the arrangement of the College of Secular Canons, and the houses which they occupied.
Here the saint built a great monastery, which flourished for many ages, till it was converted into a collegiate church of secular canons.
The saint, in 755, converted the chapter of secular canons of his cathedral into a regular community, in which he was imitated by many other churches.
I have spoken of Saint Andrew's church in Wells as a cathedral church, as a cathedral church which has always been served by secular canons; I have spoken of an opposition between the regular and the secular clergy.
Thus when, in Henry the Eighth's time, the monks were put out and secular canons put in again, the monastic buildings were no longer of any use, while there were no houses for the new canons.
The church was originally served by secular canons, but in 1177 the then Earl of Arundel introduced in their place four or five monks under a Prior from St Martin of Seez.
He built it indeed as a chapel to his Castle, and to serve it he founded there a small college of secular canons under a dean, and endowed it with the church of Beeding and many tithes, among them those of Shoreham.
But we find a church in Steyning in the thirteenth century served by secular canons.
In its foundation the church is very ancient, a small college of secular canons serving it in Saxon times.
There also arose in process of time many collegiate churches in the kingdom, which, resembled the cathedral establishments of secular canons in every respect, except that no bishop had his see within their church.
The Friaries, Colleges of secular canons, and Hospitals, were generally in or near the towns.
If this church belonged to a monastery it was served by the monks, but many of our cathedrals were in the hands of secular canons, who were not monks, and should not be confused with the "regular" clergy.
He seems to have established a community of secular canons.
Lincoln was not a monastic church, being served by secular canons, and therefore had no necessity for a cloister court.
The aisled portion, however, was sometimes planned, as at Bristol, to include the quire and presbytery and a bay for the processional path behind the high altar: this was also the plan of the church of secular canons at Southwell.
In these general arrangements, allowing for the divergences in the ritual of the various orders, there was very little difference between the interior of a monastic quire and that of a church of secular canons.
The above list will hopefully provide you with a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "secular canons" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this group of words.
