- Chantry - Wikipedia
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 a chantry chapel, a building on private land, or an area in a parish church or cathedral reserved for the performance of these celebrations
- 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 | Catholic Answers Encyclopedia
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
- The origin of chantries - Medievalists. net
Alternatively he could establish a chantry attached to a cathedral or parish church and served by a secular priest – another privatised form of commemoration which became a characteristic form of late medieval piety
- 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
- What does chantry mean? - Definitions. net
A chantry is a Christian endowment for the singing or saying of mass for the souls of deceased benefactors It is traditionally established within a church or chapel, where a priest performs these services
- 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
- chantry - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
From Middle English chaunterie, from Old French chanterie, from chanter (“to sing”) chantry (plural chantries)
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