The abbeys of England, Wales and Ireland had been among the greatest landowners and the largest institutions in the kingdoms ; although, by the early 16th century, religious donors increasingly tended to favour parish churches, collegiate churches, university colleges and grammar schools, and these were now the predominant centres for learning and the arts.

The church was planned by the Lord of the Manor and major landowner, William Lygon, 7th Earl Beauchamp, because St Mary's was too far away from the main centres of population in the parish at Kempley Green and Fishpool, and liable to flooding.

During centuries, Suure-Jaani was one of the centres of Suure-Jaani parish and, since the end of the 19th century, also the cultural and commercial centre of the parish region.

It served as an ecclesiatical centre for a wide area surrounding the county of Renfrewshire for centuries until the Reformation where such religious centres were reduced to the status of parish churches.

The medieval town grew up around two centres, firstly around the parish church ( see All Saints ' Church below ) and secondly close to the shore where a port had developed.

The plot centres on the neurotic young priest Serge Mouret, first seen in La Conquête de Plassans, as he takes his orders and becomes the parish priest for the disinterested village of Artauds.

Many of the parishes have chapels-of-ease or other Mass centres attached adding a total of 99 chapels to the 107 parish churches.

The parish is located between the municipal of seat of Santana and the parish of São Roque do Faial, 21 kilometres north Funchal the regional capital, while 5 kilometres from Porto da Cruz, 15 kilometres from Machico and 39 kilometres from Porto Moniz ; it is connected to these centres by a Regional Roadway network that gives its inhabitants limited access to southern communities.

It was only in the 20th century, that the parish developed intiatives to improve the quality of life in Pico da Pedra, that included the establishment of social centre, cooperative for habitation and consume, sports fields, a Casa do Povo, daycare and seniors centres, as well as informative services.

The north of the parish is primarily elevated mountains, where traditional levadas ( earthen constructions ) still function ; these courses were used to transport water by gravity to the population centres and agricultural tracts along its course.

The population ( 2001 UK census ) of the parish is 17, 263 ; excluding the gipsy site, university halls of residence and a few farms there are no other habitation centres in the parish outside the village.

However, the biggest centres of population in the parish are the two hamlets of Lower Padworth, along the A4 Bath Road, and Padworth Common, and the village of Aldermaston Wharf.

It is in the civil parish of Bitton, approximately 8 miles between the centres of cities Bristol and Bath.

It is part of the Risinghurst and Sandhills civil parish and is typical of housing estates built between the wars to house an increasingly prosperous working class who were moving into new urban centres — in this instance to take advantage of the burgeoning motor industry in Oxford.

The identification of the basic unit of religious organization -- the parish or congregation -- with a residential area is self-defeating in a modern metropolis, for it simply means the closing of an iron trap on the outreach of the Christian fellowship and the transmutation of mission to co-optation.

The medieval parish church of Gunsbach was shared by the Protestant and Catholic congregations, which held their prayers in different areas at different times on Sundays.

The daughter of a poor Irish clergyman in the Church of England, Anne Brontë lived most of her life with her family at the parish of Haworth on the Yorkshire moors.

However, there was still £ 13, 000 to pay on a mortgage, a fairly large amount of money in the 1880s, and Henry was at the time still only a mere parish priest.

In Byzantine usage, an antimension signed by the bishop is kept on the altar partly as a reminder of whose altar it is and under whose omophorion the priest at a local parish is serving.

The town of Peebles in the Scottish Borders holds a traditional week-long " Beltane Fair " every year in June, when a local girl is crowned Beltane Queen on the steps of the parish church.

The area was originally part of the Worcestershire parish of King's Norton, and was added to the county borough of Birmingham in Warwickshire on October 1, 1891.

There was widespread opposition to the introduction of regular congregational Communion, partly because the extra costs of bread and wine that would fall on the parish ; but mainly out of an intense resistance to undertaking in regular worship, a religious practice previously associated with marriage or illness.

Music was much simplified ; and a radical distinction developed between, on the one hand, parish worship where only the metrical psalms of Sternhold and Hopkins might be sung ; and on the other hand, worship in churches with organs and surviving choral foundations, where the music of John Marbeck and others was developed into a rich choral tradition.

The business of making the changes was then entrusted to a small committee of bishops and the Privy Council and, apart from tidying up details, this committee introduced into Morning and Evening Prayer a prayer for the Royal Family ; added several thanksgivings to the Occasional Prayers at the end of the Litany ; altered the rubrics of Private Baptism limiting it to the minister of the parish, or some other lawful minister, but still allowing it in private houses ( the Puritans had wanted it only in the church ); and added to the Catechism the section on the sacraments.

They held the first Burns supper on what they thought was his birthday on 29 January 1802, but in 1803 discovered from the Ayr parish records that the correct date was 25 January 1759, and since then suppers have been held on 25 January, Burns ' birthday.

The parish register of St. Mary's Newington, London, shows that Babbage was baptised on 6 January 1792, supporting a birth year of 1791.

The saint is assigned a feast day which may be celebrated anywhere within the Catholic Church, although it may or may not appear on the general calendar or local calendars as an obligatory feast, parish churches may be built in his or her honor, and the faithful may freely and without restriction celebrate and honor the saint.

The parish council evaluates local planning applications and works with the police, district council officers, and neighbourhood watch groups on matters of crime, security, and traffic.

The parish council's role also includes initiating projects for the maintenance and repair of parish facilities, as well as consulting with the district council on the maintenance, repair, and improvement of highways, drainage, footpaths, public transport, and street cleaning.

Beatty was born at Howbeck Lodge in the parish of Stapeley, Cheshire, on 17 January 1871.

The first Protestant parish church was erected on the hilltop in 1627.

He died six days later, of unknown causes, at King's Place, Hackney, and was buried on 6 July in the parish church of St. Augustine.

Yale died on July 8, 1721 in London, England, but was buried in the churchyard of the parish church of St. Giles in Wrexham, Wales.

The show follows the misadventures of three Roman Catholic priests who live in a parish on the fictional Craggy Island, located off the west coast of Ireland.

The show revolves around the priests ' lives on Craggy Island, sometimes dealing with matters of the church but more often dealing with Father Ted's schemes to either resolve a situation with the parish or other Craggy Island residents, or to win games of one-upmanship against his arch-nemesis, Father Dick Byrne of the nearby Rugged Island parish.

The area was part of the ancient Monmouthshire parish of Mynyddislwyn until the late 19th century.

With the ecclesiastical parishes of St Fagan's ( Trecynon ) and Aberaman carved out of the ancient parish, Aberdare had 12 Anglican churches and one Roman Catholic church, built in 1866 in Monk Street near the site of a cell attached to Penrhys monastery, and at one time had over 50 Nonconformist chapels.

All have access to the sea and are named after the saints to whom their ancient parish churches are dedicated.

Baptismal records, parish records, ancient land grants, the Annals of the Four Masters, and books by O ' Hart, McLysaght, and O ' Brien were all used in researching the history of the Mooney family name.

Historically part of the parish of St Margaret in the county of Middlesex, the name Westminster was the ancient description for the area around Westminster Abbey – the West Minster, or monastery church, that gave the area its name – which has been the seat of the government of England ( and later the British government ) for almost a thousand years.

** Hackney ( parish ), the ancient church parish, part of the modern London borough

The ancient parish of Llandaff included a wide area.

Located northeast of Charing Cross, it was historically an agrarian hamlet in the ancient parish of Stepney, Middlesex.

Biggin Hill was an ancient parish county of Kent, in the Diocese of Rochester, and under the Local Government Act 1894 formed part of Bromley Urban District.

Camberwell St Giles formed an ancient, and later civil, parish in the Brixton hundred of Surrey.

It was historically an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, with an agrarian and fishing economy.

Clerkenwell St James was an ancient parish in the Finsbury division of the Ossulstone hundred of Middlesex.

It was historically a rural village in the county of Essex and formed an ancient parish.

Feltham formed an ancient parish in the Spelthorne hundred of Middlesex.

It formed an ancient parish in the county of Middlesex, becoming a municipal borough in 1933, and has formed part of Greater London since 1965.

It was historically an ancient parish in the former county of Middlesex.

St. Mary's Church is the original ancient parish church.

Harold Wood formed a ward in the ancient parish of Hornchurch, although the area now around the station was in the North End ward.

Although locally situated within Essex the ancient Hornchurch parish formed the independent Liberty of Havering and was outside county administration.

It historically formed a large ancient parish in the county of Essex that became the liberty of Havering.

Much of Hornsey was built up in Edwardian times, but the tower of the original parish church still stands in its ancient graveyard in Hornsey High Street, at the centre of the old village.

The ancient parish church of St Mary the Virgin was largely rebuilt in the 17th Century.

Mill Hill was part of the ancient civil parish of Hendon within the historic county boundaries of Middlesex.

It was an ancient parish and the site of the early administration of the county of Surrey.