How To Use Vestry In A Sentence
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Please inform your priest in the vestry before Mass if you wish to receive.
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And we have to raise more funds as we have recently moved to our current premises, having outgrown our two rooms in Vestry Hall.
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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
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There are the parish vestry, the parish infirmary, the parish surgeon, the parish officers, the parish beadle.
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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.
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It was also noticed that he ceased to whistle unconsciously as he walked up the aisle from the vestry.
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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.
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This simple meeting room was opened in 1840, being a large room with a small vestry to the rear.
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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
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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
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Almost every gravestone was flattened by the force of the water which even got into the vestry - two steps higher than the church floor.
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But neither the justice of Kennaston's airdrawn surmises, nor their wildness, matters; the point is that they made of him a vestryman who in appearance and speech and actions, and in essential beliefs, differed not at all from his associates in office, who had comfortably acquired their standards by hearsay.
The Cream of the Jest: A Comedy of Evasions
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The new vestry (started August 1, projected completion date October 31) is just beginning to get its roof on.
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And we swear to you, (under correction from the parish vestry, which is entitled to half-a-crown an oath,) that the circulating libraries would make a driveler of Seneca!
Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 343, May 1844
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In those days that could mean lining up at the Vestry for a caning - but luckily it didn't come to that.
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By the time the choir had gone into the vestry, the entire church was in complete and utter darkness.
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Phyllida watched as he shut the vestry door; the curate 's face was pale and set.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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As we left the vestry after service he said, `Let's have an all out effort from you both.
GOODBYE CURATE
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So I said, in a by-the-by way, to my churchwarden, "We must call a vestry before long, and have this looked to.
Annals of a Quiet Neighbourhood
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The school opened with just nine pupils, using a church hall as a classroom and the vestry as an office.
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A churchwoman par excellence, she sang in the St. Anthony's choir for three decades and was a member of the vestry for some 17 years.
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A working party of the Parochial Church Council has been set up to look at where to resite it and the choir vestry is one location under consideration.
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Washington's drive and determination, essential qualities for any military commander and revolutionary leader, manifested themselves before 1775 in acquiring still other public posts: county surveyor, vestryman, and legislator.
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Under the rostrum was the vestry, and through a trap door in the rostrum floor the preacher climbed from the vestry to his place.
The Hymns of Wesley and Watts: Five Papers
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He also left 4 to pay for a dinner for vestrymen - perhaps as a sort of recommence for the likely trouble.
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In fact, my most useful contribution was stopping Ian from swearing when he stubbed his toe in the vestry.
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Ten minutes later Mr Greenfield the organist appeared in the vestry with the list of hymns for the two weddings.
GOODBYE CURATE
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After ransacking the vestry and attempting to tear a steel donation box from the wall the burglars left empty-handed.
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On dark winter nights when I turned the key in the vestry door, I entered a spiritual time-machine, awash with ghosts from a century of christenings, weddings, funerals, harvests and carol services.
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When I returned to the vestry some time later, the note had vanished from the alms dish.
GOODBYE CURATE
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It will also include two meeting rooms, a kitchen, an office, a vestry and toilets.
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The rents and profits of the lands and house were to be ‘distributed as her gift and charity, yearly and every year for ever’ by the minister and the vestrymen of Holy Trinity.
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No" said the man "Mr. Roberts who is sorting surplices in the vestry is the parson.
Daisy Ashford: Her Book
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Albert had been working in the vestry and was caught.
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Here he was, subject to the caprice and ill-will of a sour and miserly Senior Warden, and a cowed and at least partially "bossed" vestry -- and he, the rector, with no practical power of appeal for the enforcement of his legal contract.
Hepsey Burke
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In the colonies the lay vestry emerged to help with the management of church resources and property.
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Virginia parishes; the vestry was a close corporation
Civil Government in the United States Considered with Some Reference to Its Origins
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[9] The ball-flower here as well as that in the vestry differs from that in the neighbourhood, as there is a curious little side-twist or kink in it.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire
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The original pillars may have been clustered like the east respond or octagonal like that at the west, and fragments of such pillars are among the stones lying in the north-west vestry.
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Rational Review
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At last he dropped asleep in the middle of a story about a vestry he worked for that hadn't acted fair and square by him like he had by them, or it (I don't know if vestry is singular or plural), and we went home.
The Wouldbegoods
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Outside is a small boiler house and the vestry with a single room of about 90 sq ft.
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` I will send for a glass of water, sir, 'said the clergyman leaving the vestry to call the verger, or clerk, ` the lady is fainting.'
Valerie
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Phyllida watched as he shut the vestry door; the curate 's face was pale and set.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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In the vestry press we should find an alb of fine white linen, somewhat similar to a surplice, ornamented with "apparels,
English Villages
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I suppose they thought the neighbourhood of the vestry was the last place in the world where anybody would think of looking after them, but, however that may be, there they were.
The Woman in White
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It was only then I discovered they had, in fact, been trying to break into the vestry.
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I read that you were the youngest vestryman in the history of your Episcopal church.
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The truth was, that between Lady Price's economies, and the unwillingness to call vestry meetings, moneys intended for one purpose had been used for another, and articles not within the denomination of charities had been charged on funds raised for that exclusive object.
The Pillars of the House, V1
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First, he had there a dean, a great divine, and a man of excellent learning; and a sub-dean, a repeater of the choir, a gospeller, an epistler of the singing-priests, and a master of the children: in the vestry a yeoman and two grooms, besides other retainers that came thither at principal feasts ....
The Customs of Old England
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A system of smoke detectors is set to cover the entire cathedral including the soon to be completed new vestry and education room.
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`Eduardo's right, they weren't regular soldiers," Lorenzo said, appearing at the vestry door.
THE DEVIL'S DOOR
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The first hymn will provide the perfect cover for a quick dash to the vestry, where Andrew will swap the father's suit for his vicar's vestments.
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The new choir and organ loft will create a useful space underneath for a vestry with a secure area for valuables, kitchens, toilets and storage space.
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Maybe it was a vestry where the priest or the minister could put on his robes.
THE THREE INVESTIGATORS
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The eastern window of five lights is a singular combination of tracery with tabernacle work, while the easternmost bay on the south side, which is partly obscured by the vestry, has an exquisite window above, consisting of a richly traceried arch placed within a curvilinear triangle, beneath which is a splendid range of niches, and, beneath them again, a gorgeous range of sedilia and piscinae." [
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Albans With an Account of the Fabric & a Short History of the Abbey
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Original plans to rebuild the vestry were estimated at £350,000, with £260,000 of that received from a legacy.
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To assure enforcement of the law, provisions for penalties were included -- 1,200 pounds of tobacco for any vestry not ordering the processioning and 350 pounds of tobacco for individuals who failed to participate without good reason.
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
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Outside is a small boiler house and the vestry with a single room of about 90 sq ft.
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She points also to the middle classes, serving as vestrymen and jurors, who progressively lost faith in the informers and the gin acts they were enforcing.
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The new choir and organ loft will create a useful space underneath for a vestry with a secure area for valuables, kitchens, toilets and storage space.
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Being of the vestry in the afternoone, we order’d that the communion table should be set as usual altarwise, with a decent raile in front, as before the rebellion.”
The Principles of Gothic Ecclesiastical Architecture, Elucidated by Question and Answer, 4th ed.
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Phyllida watched as he shut the vestry door; the curate 's face was pale and set.
ALL ABOUT LOVE
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Tradition places the entrance at the opposite end, by means of an external staircase; an arrangement which would have been more convenient for the members of the Chapter, as they could have approached it through their vestry, which is on the south side of the choir.
The Care of Books
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Every fourth year the vestry divided the parish into precincts and appointed two honest and intelligent freeholders of each precinct to see that the bounds of each farm or plantation were processioned, and that the reports of such surveying, or processioning, were registered with the parish clerk.
A History of Caroline County, Virginia
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For administration of processioning, the county court was to order the vestry to divide each parish into as many precincts as necessary, and the time set in 1661/62 for processioning was between
Mother Earth Land Grants in Virginia 1607-1699
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This morning we had a working party to clear the existing vestry.
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I went round to the vestry and was delighted to see the sexton.
