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Перевод: vestry

[существительное]
ризница ; помещение для молитвенных и других собраний; собрание прихожан; собрание налогоплательщиков прихода

Тезаурус:

1. Even when the clergyman appeared from the vestry and began the service, the prayers he intoned brought me no help.
2. A Fairy Tale" (political satire), "A Plated Article" (a visit to a Staffordshire pottery), "Our Honourable Friend" (satire on MPs), "Our School", "Our Vestry", "Our Bore", "A Monument of French Folly" (on the superiority of French abattoirs to London's Smithfield).
3. The oddity which the fellow-curates remarked was that as he walked in the procession from the vestry up the aisle he could be heard whistling.
4. One must also remember in this respect that a key feature of Church of Ireland organization is the local select vestry, which involves the laity in debate and discussion with clergy.
5. Mr Jones, the landlord of The Two Pheasants, was organising a chain of water carriers from the tap in his bar, and Albert Piggott, stomach pains forgotten, had trundled out an archaic fire-fighting contraption which had been kept in the vestry since the Second World War and had never been used since the time when a small incendiary bomb had set light to the tassels of the bell ropes, and an adjacent pile of copies of Stainer's "Crucifixion", in 1942.
6. The conversion took place of the old Vestry Hall on the corner of Heathfield Terrace and Sutton Court Road, at the beginning of the twentieth century, for the new Urban District Council of Chiswick, the building included not only the Council Chamber and offices and a large Town Hall, but also another Hall named after Hogarth, whose bust is still displayed in the Entrance vestibule.
7. At the back of the church behind the pulpit were choir room, vestry and toilets and above the vestry a committee room.
8. It just occurs to me as I write that Chavasse in this matter is probably the unwilling mouthpiece of the Select Vestry: I daresay even that monstrous regiment of women, incarnated in Lily Ewart, is really at the bottom of it.
9. Sour old Mr Piggott, who had looked in at St Andrew's, let fall an ejaculation quite unsuitable to its surroundings, and emerging from the vestry door, crunched purposefully and maliciously upon a piece of coke to relieve his feelings.
10. It is likely that the inner core of local church laity, such as select vestry members of the Church of Ireland and presbyterian elders, provided and still provide one of the links between the material and spiritual interests of the groups in the alliance, as these laity were and are active in the business and commercial fields also.
11. "Do you know what a vestry is, children?" asked a friend of mine, probably hoping that none of them did.
12. In the church vestry can be found the unsmiling and stalwart statue of Queen Elizabeth 1.
13. The Vestry books of the Church of Ireland parish go back to 1773 and until 1870 all those present at Vestry meetings signed the minutes.