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Recent Examples of rectory
The property also comes with a guesthouse — the former rectory — which has been reconfigured as a two-bedroom, one-bath ADU-ish bonus.
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Clio Chang,
Curbed,
19 Mar. 2026
Its campus is composed of a graystone rectory dating from 1896, a red-brick school building dating from 1906, and a midcentury modern church built in 1963.
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Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
Eleven young Tennysons spilled out of the Somersby rectory—seven boys and four girls, with Alfred third from the top.
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Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Hotel Peter and Paul Set in architecturally rich Faubourg Marigny, the 71-room Hotel Peter and Paul occupies a former church, rectory, schoolhouse, and convent that dates back to the late 1800s.
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AFAR Media,
30 Dec. 2025
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Clio Chang,
Curbed,
19 Mar. 2026
Its campus is composed of a graystone rectory dating from 1896, a red-brick school building dating from 1906, and a midcentury modern church built in 1963.
—
Adam Harrington,
CBS News,
5 Mar. 2026
Eleven young Tennysons spilled out of the Somersby rectory—seven boys and four girls, with Alfred third from the top.
—
Kathryn Schulz,
New Yorker,
9 Feb. 2026
Hotel Peter and Paul Set in architecturally rich Faubourg Marigny, the 71-room Hotel Peter and Paul occupies a former church, rectory, schoolhouse, and convent that dates back to the late 1800s.
—
AFAR Media,
30 Dec. 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for rectory
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Young Alfred Tennyson grew up in a similarly provincial bit of England, tucked away in his father’s vicarage on a remote part of the east coast of England in a village of fewer than a hundred souls.
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In the vicarage garden, the Biddles found a shallow mound with the bones of 264 bodies.
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As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.
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As do the moors that stretch behind the parsonage.
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All eyes are on Taylor Swift and her Rhode Island manse as the pop superstar gets ready to wed Travis Kelce.
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Attempts to find a buyer for the manse failed in 2009, when the in-demand player transferred to Spanish team Real Madrid; it was instead rented out, most notably to Man U player Luke Shaw in 2014 for $11,500 a month.
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Per The Guardian, Harry specifically requested police protection outside of royal residences to ensure his family's safety.
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Letters may be up to 200 words and must be signed with your email address, city of residence and daytime phone number for verification.
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These people would then come to your hermitage to suggest an alternative.
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On the moors, cliffs, and hills there are wind farms; oil terminals; small farms, some of which have been there for many centuries; ruined medieval churches and hermitages; and prehistoric settlements, tombs, and monuments.
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From here the route winds south past the town of Telluride, with its legendary skiing and film, jazz and bluegrass festivals, and out to Mesa Verde National Park, where Puebloan people carved gorgeous cliff dwellings in the buttes and gorges.
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The owner has subsequently been unable to occupy or rent the dwelling, and her only recourse has been to price it below market value and attempt to sell.
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Now that Love's eight children are all grown up and out of the house, the family has opted to sell the home and look for something smaller near Lake Tahoe, according to the listing agency.
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Plaintiffs have used internal documents from the companies to allege that, in house, people have long recognized a correlation between NEC and the use of preterm formulas made from cow’s milk.
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The fire is believed to have started on the solar array on the roof of the 500,000 square-foot building, which housed 85 million pounds of frozen food.
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Instead of a hallway of bedrooms under a single roof, the sleeping spaces are dispersed across the property, each with direct access to the gardens — a design more commonly found in tropical destinations than in a tony coastal enclave about 35 miles north of San Francisco.
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“Rectory.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/rectory. Accessed 5 Jul. 2026.
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