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Bookmark or Share- Chantry - Encyclopedia.comChantry. a body of priests who say masses for the dead in a chantry chapel. Example: chantry of priests, 1775.
- Chantry | Catholic Answers EncyclopediaChantry (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.netThe 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 - Wikipediaa 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 | Britannicachantry, 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.
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