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UK
/vˈɛstɹi/
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NOUN
- in the Protestant Episcopal Church: a committee elected by the congregation to work with the churchwardens in managing the temporal affairs of the church
- a room in a church where sacred vessels and vestments are kept or meetings are held
How To Use vestry In A Sentence
- Please inform your priest in the vestry before Mass if you wish to receive.
- And we have to raise more funds as we have recently moved to our current premises, having outgrown our two rooms in Vestry Hall.
- But Mr Brownrigg, who, I must say, had taken more pains than might have been expected of him to make himself acquainted with the legalities of his office, did not fail to call a vestry, to which, as usual, no one had responded; whereupon he imposed a rate according to his own unaided judgment. Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
- There are the parish vestry, the parish infirmary, the parish surgeon, the parish officers, the parish beadle.
- They were married in the vestry of St. Patrick's Cathedral, in New York, one week after his first novel, This Side of Paradise, was published.
- It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry.
- Today the building has interesting features including stained glass windows, a carved rood screen, a pipe organ, a choir vestry and a beautifully carved pulpit.
- This simple meeting room was opened in 1840, being a large room with a small vestry to the rear.
- Their duties were primarily to take care of the church property, assess the rates, and call the vestry-meetings. Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
- The eastern end of the north aisle is used as a vestry, and the eastern end of the south aisle is impropriated to the church-warden's use. The White Wolf and Other Fireside Tales
