Nonsense Club
18th-century London literary club.
18th-century London literary club.
Collection of parishes working together under a single incumbent.
Redirected to chapel of ease.
Redirected to piscina.
Small basin in a Christian church used to clean the priest’s hands and the sacred vessels used at Mass.
Seats for the officiating clergy found on the south side of an altar.
Tax based on the number of windows a property had, widely but erroneously believed to have resulted in many windows being bricked up.
Artistic depiction of Jesus’s family tree, establishing him as a descendent of King David, and therefore the rightful Messiah.
19th-century movement in support of the closure of shops on Saturday afternoons.
Church subordinate to a parish church serving an area known as a chapelry, for the convenience of those parishioners who would find it difficult to attend services at the parish church.