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chantry Definition

chan·try (c̸han′trē, c̸hän′-)

noun pl. -·tries

  1. an endowment to pay for Masses and prayers for the soul of a specified person, often the endower: an earlier term
  2. a chapel or altar endowed, esp. in the Middle Ages, for this

Etymology: ME chanterie < OFr: see chant

chantry Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • endow: The church formerly contained a richly endowed chantry, under the invocation of the Blessed Virgin Mary.
  • found: The church was begun in 1430 on the site of a chantry founded by Robert Thirsk earlier that century.
  • establish: Salamon le Coffrer thus seems to have maintained the chantry established by his uncle and passed on the obligation to his successors.
  • find: Medieval wills might found a chantry or make a gift to a specific chapel.
  • have: The church had formerly two chantries; one belonging to the Lords of the manor, and the other to the Townleys of Ditton.
  • support: Coleshill also left part of Coleshill Hall to St Peter-le-Bailey Church to support a chantry for St Mary's mass.

Adjective modifier

  • several: By the 18th century the church was a " vast building with 10 side altars and several chantries " .
  • second: There is a second chantry, founded by the family of the late Mr. John Knill, of Blackheath.
  • other: It was suppressed with the other chantries by Edward VI. , and its revenues seized for royal use.

Modifies a noun

  • chapel: Close to the end of the bridge stands St Edmund's church, with a small chantry chapel opposite.
  • priest: We stand at the east end of the south aisle, some chantry priest celebrating Mass behind us, no doubt.
  • altar: It may have been for the Lady altar, or perhaps a chantry altar for the local lords of the manor.
  • land: The lands themselves, of course, were originally chantry lands, providing income for paying chantry priests in this very church.
  • school: The school was allowed to continue, as were the former chantry schools in Bosbury and Bromyard.
  • foundation: Enfield Grammar Originated in a pre-reformation chantry foundation at St Andrew's Church.

Preposition: in

  • church: Bucks, to endow a chantry in the church where his mother was buried, ( fn.
  • chapel: There was formerly a chantry in this chapel, founded by the Derwentwater family.

Preposition: of

  • chaplain: A chantry of two chaplains established there by Andrew de Bures ( fn.
  • priest: In 1328 Simon Swanlond founded a chantry of one priest in the chapel of St. Katherine in the parish church of North Mimms.

Preposition: for

priest: Guy Beauchamp, Earl of Warwick, founded in it a college or chantry for eight priests, in honor of the Blessed Virgin.