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  • Thumbnail for Churchwarden pipe
    A churchwarden pipe is a tobacco pipe with a long stem. The history of the pipe style is traced to the late eighteenth or early nineteenth century. Some...
    3 KB (476 words) - 16:36, 26 September 2024
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    Chibouk (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    5 ft. (1.2 and 1.5 m), much longer than even Western churchwarden pipes. While primarily known as a Turkish pipe, the chibouk was once popular across the...
    3 KB (375 words) - 23:47, 2 November 2024
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    Faynor or Farynor; c. 1615 – 20 December 1670) was an English baker and churchwarden in 17th century London. Allegedly, his bakery in Pudding Lane was the...
    5 KB (474 words) - 20:38, 30 October 2024
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    Tobacco pipe (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the New International Encyclopedia)
    A tobacco pipe, often called simply a pipe, is a device specifically made to smoke tobacco. It comprises a chamber (the bowl) for the tobacco from which...
    45 KB (5,443 words) - 01:17, 24 November 2024
  • Father Brown is a British television detective period drama that has been broadcast on BBC One since 14 January 2013. It stars Mark Williams as the eponymous...
    141 KB (2,080 words) - 19:12, 11 October 2024
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    Peter's Pence (category Articles incorporating a citation from the 1913 Catholic Encyclopedia without Wikisource reference)
    (Gloucestershire) churchwardens' accounts of 1575 to "Peter-pence or smoke-farthings" expended at the time of the bishop's visitation in the summer. Smoke-farthings...
    17 KB (2,273 words) - 02:23, 13 November 2024
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    in April 1732 and became a devoted member of the Anglican Church. He served more than 20 years as a vestryman and churchwarden at Fairfax Parish and Truro...
    223 KB (23,853 words) - 20:26, 23 November 2024
  • A number of Latin terms are used in legal terminology and legal maxims. This is a partial list of these terms, which are wholly or substantially drawn...
    113 KB (809 words) - 22:46, 4 November 2024
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    one in the church itself. A lay chamberlain was responsible to keep the clocks filled with water and to notify a churchwarden when it was time to strike...
    136 KB (14,584 words) - 09:42, 24 November 2024
  • This is a complete list of acts of the Parliament of the United Kingdom for the year 1865. Note that the first parliament of the United Kingdom was held...
    162 KB (1,542 words) - 12:51, 21 November 2024
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    political science from the University of Oslo. Høybråten was born to churchwarden and politician Per Høybråten (1932–1990) and laboratory worker Åse Margrethe...
    15 KB (1,310 words) - 23:09, 23 November 2024
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    taken to the Old Vic and Stratford upon Avon by Frank Aubrey Dawson, the churchwarden at, St Michael and All Angels Stonebridge Park, the local parish church...
    31 KB (3,509 words) - 22:41, 19 November 2024
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    Clay Cross (category Wikipedia articles incorporating a citation from the 1911 Encyclopaedia Britannica with Wikisource reference)
    in a new part of the town. Colliery owner Thomas Houldsworth, also a churchwarden for 25 years, built Alma House which stood in extensive parklands. The...
    23 KB (2,800 words) - 14:39, 24 November 2024
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    graveyard around the building, but the church itself was not damaged. Parish churchwarden Tim Stock said that his family had "lost everything" but had managed...
    20 KB (1,609 words) - 14:23, 28 November 2023
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    church caused downward draughts of wind which caused their chimneys to smoke excessively. Wagner's financial resources allowed him to buy some of the...
    18 KB (2,324 words) - 08:00, 16 September 2024
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    of this period as "a mass of horrors". However, the famous painter William Frederick Yeames, who at one time was its churchwarden, is thought to have...
    76 KB (9,422 words) - 10:24, 11 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Church of St Mary and All Saints, Chesterfield
    as a pancake bell. A further fire erupted on 22 December 1961, this time engulfing the north of the church. A clerk at the town library noticed smoke from...
    25 KB (2,420 words) - 09:11, 10 May 2024
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    modernised in 1822 in the Churchwarden style, adding a vestry. The bell tower dates from the late 1600s - one of the two bells is a rare dated Tudor example...
    85 KB (11,328 words) - 21:15, 10 November 2024
  • original members of the School Board. For three years, he was the people's churchwarden at St. Mary Church, where he was putting his practical knowledge to good...
    18 KB (1,721 words) - 21:00, 23 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Church of St Lawrence, Alton
    the upheaval of the English Civil War. The churchwarden accounts of 1625 mention that the church possesses a peal of bells, and these were rung when Charles...
    33 KB (4,270 words) - 16:33, 7 September 2023
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