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Originally appearing in Volume V05, Page 849 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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CHANTRY (Fr. chanterie, from chanter, to sing; Med. See also:Lat. cantuaria) , a small See also:chapel built out from a See also:church, endowed in pre-Ref ormation times for the See also:express purpose of maintaining priests for the chanting of masses for the soul of the founder or of some one named by him. It generally contained the See also:tomb of the founder, and, as the officiator or See also:mass-See also:priest was often unconnected with the parochial See also:clergy, had an entrance from the outside. The word passed through graduations of meaning. Its first sense was singing or chanting. Then it meant the endowment funds, next the priests, and then the church or chapel itself.

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