Parish churches [ Institutions ]
… arrangements for seating and burial locations within churches. Places > Institutions Mots-clés Architecture Assemblies Catholicism Churches Dissent Hierarchy Politics Religion Towns ‘It is difficult for today’s historians to appreciate … included rites of passage – marriage vows exchanged in church porches, baptisms prompting (God)parents and families to gather around fonts, churching ceremonies readmitting mothers following a period of purification (one of the … eighteenth-century survey featured no fewer than 39 monuments, including ‘a fine black and white marble tomb, on which lies the image of the prelate of the garter [Bishop Lancelot Andrewes] in his robes’, with a Latin inscription. 16 …
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