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Chapter house

A place for business meetings of a religious or fraternal organization; usually a building that is attached to a hall for gatherings; occasionally contains living quarters for members of such groups.
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chapter house

A place for business meetings of a religious or fraternal organization; occasionally also contains living quarters for members of such a group.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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The stony faced saints around the door of the Chapter House are Augustine, Thomas Becket, Catherine of Alexandria, John the Evangelist, John the Baptist, Margaret of Antioch, Winifred and Michael.
The Chapter House is where elders of the community get together to see what people need.
Irene Barberis is an Australian artist whose monumental new work Tapestry of Light: Intersections of Illumination is enjoying a European tour and was exhibited in the Chapter House at Canterbury Cathedral during the city's 2017 arts festival.
The library was moved by volunteers ahead of a huge PS2 million project to repair Chapter House, which forms part of Lichfield Cathedral.
It took 18 people to relocated the globally important collection, which also includes maps, manuscripts and scriptures, from the upper storey of Chapter House in Lichfield.
Donegal & (b)Airforce Security (Irl) Ltd having ceased to trade, having its registered office at Airforce Security Chapter House, Block 2,Friars Mill Road, Mullingar, Co.
THE remains of Margam Abbey's medieval chapter house are now faint echoes of their former glory.
In London, the company has secured two new contracts work ing with Mitie at the Royal Courts of Justice on the The Strand and at St Paul's Cathedral's Chapter House.
1 Sense and Sensibility, today, Erddig Hall, Wrexham, 7.30pm Take a step back in time with Chapter House Theatre Company for their lively adaptation of Jane Austen's famous novel.
She served as a Gray Lady with the Worcester Chapter of the American Red Cross as a volunteer during World War II and with the same organization, as a volunteer after the Worcester Tornado in 1953 at the Red Cross Chapter House, was a member of the Worcester Art Museum, Worcester Civic Music Association and a member of the National Secretaries Association, Worcester Chapter, of which she was chosen as Secretary of the Year in 1962, and a member of several other organizations.
You'll have to be aged 16 or over but you'll get to see the Chapter House roof as well as other parts not usually on show to visitors.
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