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manse
(in certain religious denominations) the house provided for a minister
manse
The dwelling of a clergyman.
Manse 

the complex of living quarters, farm buildings, and landed property that constituted a peasant economy in medieval Western Europe.

In the early Middle Ages, a freeholding member of the commune (alod-holder) frequently possessed a manse. With the rise of the feudal patrimonial estate, the manse became part of the latter as the holding of the family of a dependent peasant; at the same time it was a unit of intra-estate taxation.
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Not that old, traditional manses aren't beautiful buildings just that they are expensive to maintain.
Thank God for our new home; BRIERY MEADOW HADDINGTON This minister ... by Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
CASH-strapped Kirk bosses have been told to sell off all their manses to raise cash.
Kirk told to sell up by Sunday Mail (Glasgow, Scotland)
Some years ago, many congregations sold manses and used the monies for the renovations of the church building or for some other pressing cause.
It's not easy selling the manse by Tony Plomp / Presbyterian Record
 
 
 
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