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ˈchurch-house
A house belonging to the (or a) church, or used for church purposes: formerly, a house adjoining the church, where church-ales, etc. were held, a ‘parish-room’.
1484in Glasscock Rec. St. Michael's, Bp. Stortford (1882) 25 For tyling of the cherch howsse. 1580Vestry Bks. (Surtees) 118 The receipts of the rent of the church houses. 1636Divine Tragedie lately Acted 28 They kept their feast in the Church-house joyning to the Church. a1697Aubrey Nat. Hist. N. Wilts (Brand) In every parish is (or was) a church house, to which belonged spits, crocks, etc., utensils for dressing provision. 1887Hazell's Ann. Cycl. 93/2 The proposal to raise a fund for building a Church House [in London] for the manifold requirements of the Church [of England] as an organic body. |