chirch

Updated: May 1, 2025

Archbishop Courtenay gave a thousand marks and more for the building fund, and Archbishop Arundell gave a similar contribution, as well as the five bells which were known as the "Arundell ryng." We are told also that "King Henry the 4th helped to build up a good part of the Body of the Chirch."

Hartley Withers - The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.] : A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Archiepiscopal See

Lastly, Leland's allusion to "the body of the Chirch of late dayes made of a great Widnesse" shows that the main part of the work was finished at any rate by about 1538. The nave is divided east of the towers into six bays, of which the easternmost is narrower than the rest, to answer to a fragment of the old nave preserved within. The plinth is considerably higher than that of the west front.

Cecil Walter Charles Hallett - Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Ripon: A Short History of the Church and a Description of Its Fabric

Lordings! quoth he, in chirch when I preche, I paine mee to have an have an hauteine speche; And ring it out, as round as doth a bell; For I can all by rote that I tell.

Theophilus Cibber - The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753): Volume I.

Item, to the reparacons of the Chirch and bells and for my lying in the Chirche summa c. nobles. He founded a chantry there also and left money to be given weekly to six poor men to attend Mass in his chantry thrice a week. Of piety and of family pride these legacies to religious houses and to churches speak clearly.

Eileen Edna Power - Medieval People