(n.) The province of a rector; a parish church, parsonage, or spiritual living, with all its rights, tithes, and glebes.
(n.) A rector's mansion; a parsonage house.
Example Sentences:
(1) "I mean into holy orders, into the rectory in Fulbourn.
(2) Michael Parroy QC, representing the Serious Fraud Office, also told the court on Tuesday that Hayes and his lawyer wife, Sarah Tighe, went through “various manoeuvres” to transfer the £1.7m Old Rectory in Surrey into her name and failed to inform the SFO as required.
(3) We're sitting in the front room of the Rectory at Fulbourn near Cambridge.
(4) As a medical student, Burns voted for Reid – who was a SNP supporter in later life – to become rector of the University of Glasgow, and vividly recalls his rectorial address, which was printed in full in the New York Times .
(5) In retrospect, the most noticeable absentees were Scottish university students – their idea of insurrection was limited then to throwing flour bombs at rectorial elections – and ambitious members of the Labour party.
(6) Upping and leaving Moorland a week ago when the waters inundated their historic rectory (which had never flooded before) was not an easy operation.
(7) Initially, she was brought up in the village rectory with her grandparents and her mother.
(8) McDonnell revealed during the trial that he is now separated from his wife and living in a rectory with a longtime priest friend.
(9) It’s been really tough,” said Bryony Sadler, mother of two young children, who has just moved back into her home, a former rectory that had never before flooded.
(10) What changed over the next year was a combination of greater public awareness of the problems that can accompany shale drilling, bullish government support for shale gas ( "we'll see how thick their rectory walls are and how they like flaring at the end of the drive" is how Tory energy minister Michael Fallon threatened middle England), and most of all the decision by Cuadrilla to make Balcombe – a small village in the leafy heart of the Sussex commuter belt – its next target.
(11) On the second day of the five-day confiscation of funds hearing, Parroy said Hayes and Tighe applied for a £325,000 interest-only mortgage on the Old Rectory in April 2013, more than a year after he was arrested in December 2011.
(12) When her father returned from the second world war, the family moved from the old rectory to a newly-built council house.
(13) By early 2013 Hayes’s legal bills in Britain and the US were rising fast and them couple tried to sell the Old Rectory before opting to take out a mortgage, Parroy said.
(14) Michael Fallon, energy minister, signalled his willingness to fight when he declared in a recent private meeting that middle England would have to put up with the impact, saying: "We're going to see how thick their rectory walls are … and whether they like the flaring at the end of the drive."
(15) Parroy said: “As far as one can see [there is] no information at this stage at all that this process is going on.” Parroy painted a picture of pressure mounting on Hayes and Tighe, who paid £1.2m in cash for the Old Rectory in summer 2011.
(16) As with the Old Rectory, they used cash from Hayes’s savings to buy the flat.
(17) When, in the wake of the UCS triumph, as he swept into the elected rectorship of Glasgow University, his rectorial address was printed in its entirety by the New York Times, which compared it favourably to the speeches of Abraham Lincoln.
(18) It’s been tough, really tough.” The government’s announcement on Tuesday that £15.5m will be spent on flood defences in Somerset in the next six years was welcomed by the likes of Sadler, who suffered the heartbreak of leaving her dream house – a former rectory that had never flooded before – with husband, two children, mother and numerous animals and pets in tow.
(19) He's a very English combination of self-effacement, drollery and dogmatism – a listed rectory in a suit and blue tie (unlike his more artistic brother, this paper's architecture critic, Rowan Moore).
(20) She called No 9 Coronation Street the Old Rectory and dreamed of retiring to a nice bungalow in Blackpool.
Vicarage
Definition:
(n.) The benefice of a vicar.
(n.) The house or residence of a vicar.
Example Sentences:
(1) It seems that Mrs May’s vicarage upbringing has left her more than a little lacking in Christian compassion.
(2) Pep Guardiola: ‘I need a new challenge, and I want to be a manager in England’ Read more The Watford Observer reports that the Spanish defensive midfielder Mario Suárez could be on his way to Vicarage Road, having failed to make much of an impact at Fiorentina after moving there from Atlético Madrid last summer.
(3) Quique leaves with all our best wishes for the future and the knowledge he is always welcome at Vicarage Road.” “I understand football completely because I’ve been a professional in football for 32 years.
(4) Watford announced on their website: “Heurelho Gomes has agreed terms on a one-year deal at Vicarage Road and will officially become a Watford player on July 1.” Gomes spent part of last season on loan at the Bundesliga side Hoffenheim.
(5) My husband went to see the local vicar, who lives in a modest vicarage beside the old one, and met there other neighbours from nearby streets.
(6) García, who took Brighton to the Championship play-off semi-finals last season before a brief return to Israel with Maccabi, was appointed at Vicarage Road this month following the sudden departure of Beppe Sannino .
(7) The pair, who have 40 Premier League goals between them this term, were briefly club-mates at Leicester City in the Championship three seasons ago, starting on the bench alongside another member of Roy Hodgson’s squad, Danny Drinkwater, in the second leg of their play-off semi-final at Vicarage Road in May 2013 .
(8) On loan at Watford from Chinese club Guangzhou Evergrande, Alessandro Diamanti ’s time at Vicarage Road also looks to be drawing to a close, with Udinese, Bologna and Livorno all being touted as likely destinations for the former West Ham striker.
(9) Believing the old vicarage to be worth saving, we have won strong support from the Ancient Monument Society , and the Victorian Society , who both formally object to its demolition.
(10) Six months ago we got such a letter from Barnet council in north London , telling us that somebody we had never heard of intended to knock down the handsome old Victorian vicarage behind us and concrete over its grounds with no fewer than 53 homes, along with a restaurant and hairdresser.
(11) In his second year it was he who suffered injuries and after making only nine starts it ended with a move to Vicarage Road.
(12) Sergio Agüero completes Manchester City’s turnaround at Watford Read more City looked like they were going to slip six points behind Arsenal after Aleksandar Kolarov scored an own goal in the 55th minute, but they hit back with goals in the final eight minutes from Yaya Touré and Agüero at Vicarage Road.
(13) Aidy Boothroyd, then the manager at Vicarage Road, relished working with a player he describes as blessed with “the X factor”, devoting hours to improving his right foot while being consistently impressed by parents who placed the winger at the centre of their world.
(14) He had arrived at Vicarage Road expecting to watch the match from the stands but instead found himself thrust into action in Watford's biggest game of the season.
(15) It is a highly impressive return and reason for Liverpool to fear before their visit to Vicarage Road on Sunday lunchtime.
(16) As a result, he was able to buy the swanky vicarage in a Berkshire village that he still lives in.
(17) The 19-year-old has secured a move to Vicarage Road upon the expiry of his Reds contract but, as he is under the age of 24, his registration would have been subject to compensation in the form of a development fee.
(18) Eight coaches in a little under four years at Watford under the reign of the Pozzo family may not bode well for Walter Mazzarri’s long-term employment hopes but it has not stopped the 54-year-old from signing a three-year contract at Vicarage Road having been impressed by the Italian owners’ vision for the club.
(19) The Hornets twice came from behind at Vicarage Road and the England hopeful Jack Wilshere spurned a glorious opportunity to win it for Bournemouth.
(20) I’ve tried to speak to him and his attitude has always been in question, but he just wants to play and he gets frustrated if he is not in the team.” Following his red card against the Swans in September, Swiss midfielder Valon Behrami has not made a single start for Watford and could be headed for the Vicarage Road door marked “Do One”.