Chantry Chantry

Chantry - Definition and Overview

Chantry is a shrine or chapel where someone had paid an "endowment" to have the monks say (or "chant") prayers on a fixed schedule for someone who had died.

The same term is also used for the endowenent itself, as well as for the monks or priests so endowed.

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