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Soon he was in trouble there, for defending a woman who was accused of smiling in church.
The unconquerable Mrs. Hutchinson was residing at Pocasset, after having been excommunicated by the Boston church and thrown out of the colony.
it was also sacred, `` and no believer in an inspired church could tolerate having her canons examined as we should examine human laws ''.
He was outraged by the book and announced that he had discovered fifty technical errors in its account of church practices.
He was stern and overbearing with his flock, but obsequious and conciliatory with the whites, especially the rich who partly supported the church.
The characteristic thing about this church was its Amen corner and the weekly religious orgy.
It was arranged that he would board in the home of one of the old members of the church, a woman named Catt who, as Wilson afterward found, was briefly referred to as The Cat because of her sharp tongue and fierce initiative.
Ann Catt was a lonely, devoted soul, never married, conducting a spotless home and devoted to her church, but a perpetual dissenter and born critic.
On the other side of the church was a quiet, well-kept house with shutters and recently painted.
The deacon of the church, Carlson, was its janitor.
But there was one thing that he had to stress, and that was that the contribution to the general church expenses, the dollar money, had been seriously falling behind in this church, and that must be looked after immediately.
Wilson stressed the fact that clear as this was, they must have a better church, a more business-like conduct of the church organization, and an effort to get this religious center out of its rut of wild worship into a modern church organization.
The bank which held the mortgage on the old church declared that the interest was considerably in arrears, and the real estate people said flatly that the land across the river was being held for an eventual development for white working people who were coming in, and that none would be sold to colored folk.
When it was proposed to rebuild the church, Wilson found that the terms for a new mortgage were very high.
There was the slate roof of the church ; ;
There was no church like Drew Church, no preacher like Papa, who was intimate with Him, and could consign sinners to hellfire.

church and vaulted
* Burial vaults – stone or brick-lined underground spaces for interment ( rather than burial ), originally vaulted, often privately owned for specific family groups ; usually beneath a religious building such as a church or in a churchyard or cemetery
The great cloister was surrounded by the buildings essentially connected with the daily life of the monks ,-- the church to the south, with the refectory placed as always on the side opposite, the dormitory, raised on a vaulted undercroft, and the chapter-house adjacent, and the lodgings of the cellarer, responsible for providing both monks and guests with food, to the west.
Built on piles, the weight of the church was an important consideration and the vaulted ceiling is a wooden copy of a stone ceiling.
It terminates in the vaulted chancel containing the high altar at the extreme eastern end of the church.
The church was vaulted in wood in the eighteenth century, but the nave vaults were removed in the twentieth century.
It is a hall church, vaulted over five aisles, the outer two divided into chapels.
Inside the composite church is a labyrinth of narrow vaulted corridors and vertical cylinders of the churches.
The church was originally founded in 836 by Louis the Pious, but the present Romanesque building was completed in 1208, the Gothic vaulted roof dating from 1498.
Around 1400, a Gothic church was built in the center of the cemetery with a vaulted upper level and a lower chapel to be used as an ossuary for the mass graves unearthed during construction, or simply slated for demolition to make room for new burials.
Famous examples include Sir George Martin's AIR Studios at Lyndhurst Hall in Belsize Park, London, a large, vaulted 19th century building originally constructed as a church and missionary school.
The central space was sometimes surrounded by a very thick wall, in which deep recesses, to the interior, were formed, as at the noble church of St George, Salonica ( 5th century ), or by a vaulted aisle, as at Sta Costanza, Rome ( 4th century ); or annexes were thrown out from the central space in such a way as to form a cross, in which these additions helped to counterpoise the central vault, as at the Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ravenna ( 5th century ).
The vaulted library and sacristy were on the ground floor, adjacent to the church.
The church is noted for its painted roof and early sixteenth-century fan vaulted aisle, the Dorset Aisle, designed and commissioned by Cecily Bonville, 7th Baroness Harington, whose first husband was Thomas Grey, 1st Marquess of Dorset.
The central area of the church is dominated by a large octagonal dome which is reinforced by the arcades of the vaulted ceilings and is supported by four massive octagonal columns.
The small brick church is of an unusual design in London, being based on that of a Greek cross ; it utilises a vaulted square within a square, a formula based on the Nieuwe Kerk in Haarlem in the Netherlands.
The interior of the church has influence from the French-Gothic style, visible in its vaulted ceilings that are curved and end in a point at the top.
In 1970 it was decided that the church, one of the most important examples of sixteenth century vaulted architecture in Southern Germany, should fulfil a dual function as a place of worship and as the university banquet, assembly and concert hall.
It was modeled after the Assumption Cathedral in Vladimir, in that it made extensive use of limestone masonry on a high limestone base, and was laid out as a three nave church with a vaulted cross-dome.
Serlio's model of church façade was a regularized version, cleaned up and made more classical, of the innovative method of providing a facade to a church with a high vaulted nave flanked by low side aisles, providing a classical face to a Gothic form, that was first seen in Alberti's Santa Maria Novella in Florence ( c. 1458 ).
The church porch is two-storeyed with a splendid pelican in its fine vaulted roof, the doorway having an old niche with a Madonna.
The church is late Norman ; has a rich south doorway, and an apsidal vaulted chancel ; contains a monument to Bishop Barlow's widow, recording that her five daughters were all married to bishops ; and was restored in 1850.
Best preserved are the south-west gateway through the precinct wall, various discontinuous fragments of the wall itself, and part of the east cloister range, including the still vaulted slype ( passage from the cloister to the east end of the church ), all built of local red sandstone.
Another medieval church of the monastery is the Archangels ' Church dating back probably to the 12th century, the vaulted open narthex of which was painted by Zahari Zograf in 1841.

church and cruciform
The cruciform church measured long by wide.
Most Gothic churches, unless they are entitled chapels, are of the Latin cross ( or " cruciform ") plan, with a long nave making the body of the church, a transverse arm called the transept and, beyond it, an extension which may be called the choir, chancel or presbytery.
The church is laid out in a cruciform plan with an aisled nave and a clerestorey of seven bays.
The church is cruciform in plan, and is able to seat 1200.
As this building was to serve as a monastic church, it was built to a cruciform plan, which had become relatively rare in parish churches of the time.
The new church was a cruciform building, with an aisled nave of nine bays, a pair of towers at the west end, transepts with apsidal chapels, a low crossing tower, and a short choir ending in three apses.
The elegant cruciform church of St George ( St Georgen-Kirche ) dates from the first half of the 13th century.
The church was originally cruciform in shape, with a central tower and twin west towers.
The church was cruciform, with a tower at the crossing and two smaller towers at the west end.
It is a cruciform church, with an exterior clad with staff panel.
The earliest use of the octagonal cloister vault within an external housing at the crossing of a cruciform church may be at Acqui Cathedral in Acqui Terme, Italy, which was completed in 1067.
A cruciform timber church built in 1652, with a richly decorated interior.
It was converted to a cruciform church in 1625 ; the carved portal and wall planks are original.
The cruciform church was sold after the Dissolution and converted into a mansion.
The resurrection creche can regenerate someone carrying a cruciform from their remains ( though not always ); this is integrated into the Pax Christian church original concept of resurrection.
In its 13th century state-much of the basic layout of which survives today-the church was cruciform in plan, with an aisled bay of six naves, a crossing tower, transepts, a five bay chancel, and a retrochoir or “ Lady Chapel ”, the form of which has also been interpreted as group of four chapels with separate gabled roofs, two opening from the choir, and two from each aisle.
Another parish church was completed in 1280, but this church was mostly demolished and rebuilt about 1430 on a cruciform floor plan.
The 15th century cruciform church also included lofts and a rood chapel but were ordered removed by Queen Elizabeth.
It is unclear when the church was rebuilt in stone, but the 12th century church seems to have had an aisleless cruciform plan.
The present church is a cruciform building that was built in the 13th century.
Features of the church include, large cruciform piers with Doric pilasters, a plain cornice, and stone carved window frames.
St. Mary the Virgin, the ancient parish church that stands on the village green, is the only cruciform Anglo-Saxon church in Northern England.

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