Noun:

चंट्री,

chantry's Usage Examples:

The chantry of St Edmund the Martyr which stood on the opposite side of the town was a part of Edward III.'s endowment to the priory, and became so famous as a place of pilgrimage, especially for those on their way to Canterbury, that the part of Watling Street which crossed there towards London was sometimes called " St Edmund's Way.

He was afterwards rector of Abbreochy, Loch Ness, and later held a chantry in the cathedral of Norway.

St Lawrence's chapel, a chantry built under Edward I., was bought by the townsfolk at the Reformation.

Lord Ashburton was educated at the grammar school, which was founded as a chantry in 1314.

It lay afterwards under the Villiers monument, and in 1878 was re-buried in Henry V.'s chantry.

On St Thomas's Hill, where Thomas, earl of Lancaster, was beheaded in 1322, a chantry was erected in 1373, the site of which is now occupied by a windmill built of its stones.

The grammar school was founded by Dr Roger Lupton, provost of Eton College, in 1528, but as it was connected with a chantry it was suppressed by Henry VIII., to be refounded in 1551 by Edward VI.; it now takes rank among the important public schools.

chantry for priests, and in 1351 Ralph de Stratford built for John's chantry priests "a house of square stone," which came to be known as the college, and in connexion with which the church became collegiate.

But it was no more a chantry than the other colleges, all of which, like the monasteries and collegiate churches, were to pray for their founders' and other specified souls.

The college is sometimes described as being different from other colleges in being merely a large chantry to pray for the souls of the dead warriors.

Synonyms:

chapel,