| The catastrophic plague losses of the Black Death helped fuel an obsession with the afterlife and to popularize chantries. |
| Large churches might have several chantries, cathedrals up to two dozen. |
| But the dissolution of the chantries, which included almost all non-educational collegiate churches, was even more destructive in this respect. |
| Gilds were connected with the impulse to found chantries to send up soul-prayers in the mass, the highest form of approach to God. |
| But the Reformation of the 1530s with its dissolution of monasteries, abbeys and chantries would have made the school redundant. |
| The Dissolution of Colleges Act suppressed thousands of chantries, and the Sacrament Act restored communion in both kinds. |
