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Chantry - Wikipedia A chantry is an ecclesiastical term that may have either of two related meanings: [1] a chantry service, a set of Christian liturgical celebrations for the dead (made up of the Requiem Mass and the Office of the Dead), or
Chantry | Gothic, Medieval Monastic | Britannica chantry, chapel, generally within a church, endowed for the singing of masses for the founder after his death The practice of founding chantries, or chantry chapels, in western Europe began during the 13th century A chantry was added to the cathedral of Notre-Dame in Paris in 1258
CHANTRY Definition Meaning | Dictionary. com an endowment for the singing or saying of Mass for the souls of the founders or of persons named by them a chapel or the like so endowed the priests of a chantry endowment a chapel attached to a church, used for minor services
Chantry | Catholic Answers Encyclopedia Chantry (M E chaunterie; O Fr chanterie; Fr chanter, to sing; M Lat cantaria, cantuaria, whence cantarie, cantuarie), the endowment of one or more priests to say or sing Mass for the soul of the endower, or for the souls of persons named by him, and also, in the greater number of cases, to perform certain other offices, such as those of
The origin of chantries - Medievalists. net The chantry was a phenomenon of the later middle ages whose origins have never been satisfactorily explained It is argued here that what led to its emergence in the thirteenth century was the inability of the monastic orders, at a time of rising population and increasing awareness of the pains of Purgatory, to cope with the growing demand for
Chantry - definition of chantry by The Free Dictionary chantry A small self-contained chapel, usually inside but sometimes outside a medieval church, financially endowed by the founder so that regular masses could be said for the repose of his or her soul
CATHOLIC ENCYCLOPEDIA: Chantry - NEW ADVENT These detached chantry chapels, built in a churchyard, or in an outlying district, or at the entrance to bridges, often consisted of two stories, the lower one being devoted to the strictly religious uses of the foundation, while the incumbent used the upper one as his home or as a schoolroom
Dictionary : CHANTRY | Catholic Culture An endowment given to a priest requesting him to sing or say Masses for a person's soul It may call for additional duties such as acting as chaplain or teaching gratuitously The term was also
Chantry - Encyclopedia Volume - Catholic Online Among the many evils attendant upon the suppression of the chantry the most grievous, perhaps, was the effect upon education For the chantries were the grammar schools of the period -- the incumbent "teaching gratis the poor who asked it humbly for the love of God "
The Medieval Chantry in England - British Archaeological Association Chantries were religious institutions endowed with land, goods and money At their heart was the performance of a daily mass for the spiritual benefit of their founders, and the souls of all faithful dead