| The Dissolution of Colleges Act suppressed thousands of chantries, and the Sacrament Act restored communion in both kinds. |
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| But the dissolution of the chantries, which included almost all non-educational collegiate churches, was even more destructive in this respect. |
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| The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries. |
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| Gilds were connected with the impulse to found chantries to send up soul-prayers in the mass, the highest form of approach to God. |
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| But the Reformation of the 1530s with its dissolution of monasteries, abbeys and chantries would have made the school redundant. |
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| Large churches might have several chantries, cathedrals up to two dozen. |
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| Black and white photographs are included, along with diagrams showing arrangements of chantries and sight lines within churches. |
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| An April 2009 conference at Oxford explored chantries and chantry chapels as vehicles of religious, social, and architectural expression. |
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