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Frederic W. Woodhouse. The Churches of Coventry
The Churches of Coventry
Table of Contents
PREFACE
CHURCHES OF COVENTRY
MONASTERY AND CITYToC
FOOTNOTES:
THE RUINS OF THE PRIORY AND CATHEDRAL CHURCHToC
ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH
ST. MICHAEL'S CHURCH
CHAPTER IToC
HISTORY OF THE CHURCH
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IIToC
THE EXTERIOR OF THE CHURCH
FOOTNOTES:
CHAPTER IIIToC
THE INTERIOR OF THE CHURCH
FOOTNOTES:
HOLY TRINITY CHURCH
CHAPTER IToC
HISTORY OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER IIToC
THE EXTERIOR OF THE CHURCH
CHAPTER IIIToC
THE INTERIOR
FOOTNOTES:
ST. JOHN BAPTIST'S CHURCHToC
THE EXTERIOR
THE INTERIOR
THE GREY FRIARS' CONVENTToC
CHRIST CHURCH
THE WHITE FRIARSToC
ST. MARY HALLToC
FOOTNOTES:
THE CARTHUSIAN MONASTERYToC
INDEX
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Frederic W. Woodhouse
A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
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They were not generally welcomed by the monks. A Benedictine laments their first appearance thus "Oh shame! oh worse than shame! oh barbarous pestilence! the Minor Brethren are come into England!" and at Bury they were obliged to build outside a mile radius from the Abbey. The parish priests also soon found out that they were undersold in the exercise of their spiritual offices and although no doubt many badly needed awakening they were not, on that account, the more likely to welcome the intruders.
Another innovation, affecting the fortunes of the parish priest, had its beginning under the rule of Bishop Stavenby though its greatest development occurred in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. This was the foundation of Chantries designed primarily for the maintenance of a priest or priests to say mass daily or otherwise for the soul's health of the founder, his family and forbears. The earliest we hear of are one at Lincoln, and one at Hatherton in Coventry Archdeaconry while the Bishop himself endowed one in Lichfield Cathedral. Many were perpetual endowments (£5 per annum being the average stipend), others were temporary, according to the means of those who paid for the masses—for a term of years or for a fixed number of masses. Although chantry priests were often required to give regular help in the church services or taught such scholars as came to them or served outlying chapelries, the system permitted a great number to live on occasional engagements and was doubtless productive of abuses. Chaucer tells us that his poor parson was not such an one as
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