Noun:

चंट्री,

chantries's Usage Examples:

chantrys suppressed with the other chantries by Edward VI., and its revenues seized for royal use.

chantrye 18th century the church was a " vast building with 10 side altars and several chantries " .

chantryhurch had formerly two chantries; one belonging to the Lords of the manor, and the other to the Townleys of Ditton.

Chantries belonged to this class.

c. 14 (specially directed to the suppression of chantries) vests in the crown all money paid by corporations and all lands appointed to the finding or maintenance of any priest, or any anniversary or obit or other like thing, or of any light or lamp in any church or chapel maintained within five years before 1547.

An act of 1545 dissolved chantries, colleges and other religious foundations; and in the autumn of 1546 the Spanish ambassador was anticipating further anti-ecclesiastical measures.

The first parliament of Edward's reign gave all the lands and possessions of colleges, chantries, 'c., to the king, when the different companies of London redeemed those which they had held for the payment of priests' wages, obits and lights at the price of £20,000, and applied the rents arising from them to charitable purposes.

St William's College, near the minster, was founded in 1453 as a college for priests holding chantries in the minster; its restoration as a church house and meeting-place for convocation was undertaken in 1906.

On the passing of the act of parliament in 1545 enabling the king to dissolve chantries and colleges, Parker was appointed one of the commissioners for Cambridge, and their report saved its colleges, if there had ever been any intention to destroy them.

In 1553 the commissioners of chantries sold the chapel to the inhabitants to be continued as a place of divine service.

Synonyms:

chapel,