Pews Sentence Examples

Seats, seat rents, pews, the union and disjunction of parishes and formation of district parishes are of secular jurisdiction.

Speak the word of God over the empty pews.

A little below the abbey is the parish church of St Mary, originally Norman, and retaining traces of the first building; owing to a variety of alterations at different periods, and the erection of high wooden pews and galleries, its appearance is more remarkable than beautiful.

In 1856 it was restored by Edward Browning, who designed the beautifully carved oak pews.

In the 1880s it became common for Anglican churches to replace the box pews with rows of open pews.

A vestibule was made by removing some pews at the back of the church.

The ministers are supported by a sustentation fund formed of voluntary contributions, the rents of seats and pews, and the proceeds of the commutation of the Regium Donum made by the commissioners under the Irish Church Act 1869.

The pews of the pope's escape was received at Constance with an extraordinary outburst of rage, and led to the subversive decrees of the 4th and 5th sessions, which proclaimed the superiority of the council over the pope.

Hence Connecticut became known as the " Land of Yankee Notions "; and small wares are still manufactured, the patents granted to inventors in one city ranging from bottle-top handles, bread toasters and lamp holders, to head-rests for church pews and scissors-sharpeners.

Mrs Moore and Mr Clarke invited me into their pews and introduced me to the retired brigadier and to Bob the electrician.

In 1978, at the time of the centenary celebrations, the original pews were replaced with more flexible modern chairs.

Some reports state the high box pews and the north gallery were removed, a small vestry and bell cote were added.

Tiled floor; plastered walls above oak paneled dado, probably from old pews; wood paneled ceiling.

Under these pews is a Roman tessellated pavement thought to have been used by the masons to floor part of the previous Saxon church.

Thorpe Park and Alton Towers pack them in as the churches battle to fill the pews.

The first evening we attended the service in the village church, built of concrete with wooden pews.

Either fixed pews or moveable chairs may be provided.

There are also a few Victorian pine pews, easily identifiable.

Till 1903 there were square oak pews, these were replaced by seats in pitch pine.

The old box pews were replaced in the same year by the present open ones.

Seating in the center Nave of the Church is in narrow pine pews.

The bar has been lovingly recreated from choir pews reclaimed from a private family chapel in West Sussex.

St Mary's Church with box pews dating from the 15th century and a roof constructed by local shipwrights.

The old plan of coming out and taking one's place at the communion table in the body of the church is unhappily seen no more; communicants now receive the sacred elements seated in their pews.

The old pews appear to be riddled with woodworm; presumably they have been treated.

St Mary 's Church with box pews dating from the 15th century and a roof constructed by local shipwrights.

Our pews are empty, our churches are desecrated, our faith and creed spat upon by modern society.

Despite much rebuilding in 1850, the box pews, two-decker pulpit and squire 's pew were retained.

Black and red tiled flooring throughout; wooden flooring beneath pews; heating vents in central aisle.

The nave is lined north and south with box pews, and to the east, against the south wall sits the triple-decker pulpit.

Cassie was easily distracted in church by the beautiful chandelier that hung a few pews in front of her.

With no pews (unlike many American church weddings), there is nothing to accent the aisle and aisle runners.

Autumn wedding decorations are not limited to just pews and reception tables.

Even the pews were adorned in pink roses.

Holiday seasons and times of uncertainty in our nation and world is when the church pews are packed - but this usually does not indicate a surplus of funds.

He was the first to introduce family pews in synagogues, and in many other ways "occidentalized" Jewish worship.