collegiately

Updated: May 23, 2025

These vicars-choral formed a corporate body and lived collegiately in the Bedern. The numerous chantries in the Minster were served by priests who also lived collegiately but at St. William's College. The College, at the head of which was a Provost, was founded about the middle of the century. Previously these priests had lived in private houses.

Edwin Benson - Life in a Mediæval City: Illustrated by York in the XVth Century