[ noun ] an official residence provided by a church for its parson or vicar or rector <noun.artifact>
Rectory \Rec"to*ry\ (-t?*r?), n.; pl. {Rectories} (-r?z). [Cf. OF. rectorie or rectorerie, LL. rectoria.] 1. The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
2. A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
An old rectory might come to Pounds 800-Pounds 900.
Every now and then a field will subside, and the lawn in front of the St. Saviour's rectory undulates because of air raid shelters below.
The 18th century house incorporates a 17th-century rectory in which Christopher Wren spent the first three years of his life.
The priest, who was not identified in the report, was found unconscious Dec. 20 in the rectory of Naceradec, about 45 miles southeast of Prague, the newspaper Rude Pravo said.
The 28-year-old man, whom the Post did not identify, told the paper he had oral sex two or three times a week with Stallings in the church rectory for several months in 1977.
A week ago the newspaper reported that a man, now 28, said he repeatedly had sex with Stallings in a Washington church rectory in 1977 when the man was a 16-year-old altar boy.
The priest's double life was exposed in a $500,000 lawsuit filed by Flahive's rectory housekeeper who claimed she invested her salary into his dog-raising endeavor and failed to receive ample compensation after his death.
Reilly, 68, pastor of St. Lawrence Roman Catholic Church, was in his rectory's living room "when the roof went off and the windows went out." "I kind of spread-eagled in front of the window as the thing began to suck me out.
Jackson-Stops is asking Pounds 475,000. Pendomer Manor, south-west of Yeovil, is another long house of similar date which once was the rectory for the church next door.
Inquiries to Cole Flatt (0442-870444) or Lane Fox (071-499 4785). In the middle range of houses, Carter Jonas had a notable success in the auction of the former rectory at Swinbrook in Oxfordshire.
In January, the Rev. Stefan Niedzielak, a Solidarity supporter, was found dead of a broken neck in his Warsaw rectory.
A clergyman from the poor neigborhood where the slayings occurred testified that he slept with a ceremonial sword at his bedside because he feared the tough youths who came to his rectory late at night looking for handouts.
SEBCO's offices are near the church rectory, where the priest lived for years.