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  • "The Chantry was a special, often private, chapel within a church dedicated to a particular benefactor or benefactor's family," explained Dr Roffey.

    The Medieval Chantry Chapel: An Archaeology, by Simon Roffey 2007

  • "The Chantry was a special, often private, chapel within a church dedicated to a particular benefactor or benefactor's family," explained Dr Roffey.

    Archive 2007-11-01 2007

  • A few yards away further along the path stood a red-brick building called The Chantry, a psychiatric halfway house where patients lived for a time before they returned to the community.

    The Jigsaw Man Britton, Paul, 1946- 1997

  • Thefe are in the city; and without itj in a lane lead - ing from St. Sepulchre's nunnery to Longport, is an ancient houfe, called the Chantry, giving name tc the lane it ftands in.

    A Walk in and about the City of Canterbury: With Many Observations Not Hitherto Described in Any ... 1779

  • "Chantry," he said to his friend the sculptor, "I want you to promise that when I am dead you will see me rolled in that canvas when I'm buried."

    Pictures Every Child Should Know A Selection of the World's Art Masterpieces for Young People Mary Schell Hoke Bacon 1902

  • Chantry said in a telephone interview the findings mean drugs could be developed in the next 10 years that could be used to halt the aggressive spread of many forms of cancer, including breast cancer, brain, colon and skin cancer.

    Blocking 'Rogue Gene' Could Stop Cancer Spread Meghan Neal 2011

  • Chantry said in a telephone interview the findings mean drugs could be developed in the next 10 years that could be used to halt the aggressive spread of many forms of cancer, including breast cancer, brain, colon and skin cancer.

    Blocking 'Rogue Gene' Could Stop Cancer Spread Meghan Neal 2011

  • Other boys in the Chantry, the ones assigned to Magister Hune, would return to the dormitories with their failings bared in welts and bruises, but Oros corrected his own students with silence.

    Transcript: Child Abuse in Speculative Fiction « Coyote Con 2010

  • I rode my bike to school past Long Elms, another eighteenth-century elm avenue planted on the old Chantry Estate, leading to Hatch End.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

  • I rode my bike to school past Long Elms, another eighteenth-century elm avenue planted on the old Chantry Estate, leading to Hatch End.

    Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

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