parish church
Forms: see parish, church, kirk.
The church of a parish.
| c 1380 Wyclif Wks. (1880) 14 Axe hem what charite it is to laten parische chirchis fallen doun. 1448 Paston Lett. I. 72 Being at messe in one Parossh Chirche. 1563 Reg. Privy Council Scot. I. 248 The parochinaris of the paroche kirk within this realm. 1584 Fenner Def. Ministers (1587) 49 Diuers..haue made men paye twelue pence a Saboth for being absent from their parishe Church. 1600 Shakes. A.Y.L. ii. vii. 52 The why is plaine, as way to Parish Church. 1732 Berkeley Alciphr. i. §1 Crito, whose parish-church is in our town. 1841 Macaulay Ess., W. Hastings (1863) II. 243/2 Behind the chancel of the parish church of Daylesford,..was laid the coffin of [Warren Hastings]. 1890 Stubbs Study Med. & Mod. Hist. (1900) 457 The parish church where for generations their fathers have been baptized, married and buried. |