The perpetual chantry was the most prestigious and expensive option for the wealthy burgess or aristocrat. A lesser option was the endowment of a fixed term chantry, to fund masses by one or two priests at a side altar. Terms of anything from one to ten years are encountered.
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Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia. n chantry A church or chapel which in former times was endowed with lands or other revenue for the maintenance of one or more priests to sing or say mass daily for the soul of the donor or for the souls of persons named by him.
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A particular impetus in the development of the chantry is the direction of the religious patronage of the family of King Henry II of England. Henry himself had founded at least one daily mass for his own soul, in the endowment of the estate of Lingoed (Gwent) on the abbey of Dore (Herefordshire) for the services of four monk-priests in perpetuity.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary. Chantry A chapel or altar so endowed. Chantry An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.
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At the border of every parish, all the ecclesiastics thereto appertaining, parochial, chantry and monastic, turned out to meet the procession with their tapers; escorted it to the principal church; performed Mass there, if it were in the forenoon;
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These are the tombs of St Richard, of which I have spoken, in the north transept against the choir, the restored Arundel Chantry and tomb of Richard Fitzalan in the north aisle of the nave, and the exquisite Decorated tomb in the chapel of St John Baptist at the eastern end of this aisle; little beside.
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In literature: 1  The birds were singing in a hundred chantries. 2  In Dugdale's account of Clodshalle's Chantry, near Birmingham, he says it was founded by Walter de Clodshalle of Saltley, 4 Edward III. 3  He is to live in the said chantry, and say mass daily in the chapel thereof.
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Chantry is the English term for the establishment of an institutional chapel on private land or within a greater church, where a priest would chant masses. The same term is also used for the endowment itself. The word derives from the Latin cantaria, meaning 'licence to sing mass'.
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We heard, too, that Chantry House was very secluded, with only a few cottages near at hand- a mile and a half from the church and village of Earlscombe, three from the tiny country town of Wattlesea, four from the place where the coach passed,
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Dean Kitchin writes:  One cannot look at his effigy, as it lies in his stately chantry without noting the powerful and selfish characteristics of his face, and especially the nose, large, curved, and money-
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Chantry is the English term for the establishment of an institutional chapel on private land or within a greater church, where a priest would chant masses.