mass-house

One house was a mass-house with pictures hanging up inside.

Ben Comee A Tale of Rogers's Rangers, 1758-59

They plundered some Papists, I think, and burnt a mass-house [1327] in Moorfields the same night. '

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

At night the outrages began by the demolition of the mass-house by Lincoln's-Inn. '

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

[1327] Baretti in a marginal note on mass-house, says, 'So illiberal was Johnson made by religion that he calls here the chapel a mass-house ....

Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887

"It might be properly called a mass-house," was the reply; "for it was built for that purpose."

The Complete Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Passing, on the left, a white-walled mass-house on a small height, with the priest looking at us from amid the autumn-tinted vine leaves that shaded the wall, we entered the town of Bicherasio.

Pilgrimage from the Alps to the Tiber Or The Influence of Romanism on Trade, Justice, and Knowledge James Aitken Wylie 1849

"It might be properly called a mass-house," was the reply; "for it was built for that purpose."

Old Portraits, Modern Sketches, Personal Sketches and Tributes Complete, Volume VI., the Works of Whittier John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

"It might be properly called a mass-house," was the reply; "for it was built for that purpose."

Old Portraits, Part 1, from Volume VI., The Works of Whittier: Old Portraits and Modern Sketches John Greenleaf Whittier 1849

Ireland with his Popish friend at the mass-house; that he and my mother had a violent quarrel on the very last day; that, on the contrary, he kissed Biddy and Dosy, her two nieces, who seemed very sorry that he should go; and that being pressed to go and visit the rector, he absolutely refused, saying he was a wicked old Pharisee, inside whose doors he would never set his foot.

Barry Lyndon William Makepeace Thackeray 1837

It never had been my practice to tamper with or to compromise what I knew to be wrong; therefore I had not suffered curiosity to lead me within the walls of a mass-house, nor in any way to put on the semblance of an agreement which cannot really exist between the temple of God and idols.

Personal Recollections Abridged, Chiefly in Parts Pertaining to Political and Other Controversies Prevalent at the Time in Great Britain 1790-1846 Charlotte Elizabeth 1818