Vestments - Law Dictionary

Ornaments rubric, that rubric of the Prayer Book which directs just before the Order for Morning Prayer that--Such Ornaments of the Church, and of the Ministers thereof, at all times of their Ministration shall be retained, and be in use, as were in this Church of England by the Authority of Parliament in the Second Year of the reign of King Edward the Sixth.The meaning of this rubric has been declared by the Judicial Committee of the Privy Council to be that 'vestments' of ministers as celebrates cannot be worn, though prescribed by the First Prayer Book of Edward the Sixth, which had the authority of the First Act of Uniformity (2 & 3 Edw. 6, c. 1; see Clifton v. Ridsdale, (1877) 2 PD 276; but that judgment has been the subject of much contro-versy. See Whitehead's Church Law, tit. 'Vestments'; Talbot on Ritual; Encyclop'dia of the Laws of England, tit. 'Vestments'; Lely on the Church of England Position, p. 148....

Clothes

Covering for the human body dress vestments vesture a general term for whatever covering is worn or is made to be worn for decency or comfort...

Gammadion

A cross formed of four capital gammas formerly used as a mysterious ornament on ecclesiastical vestments etc See Fylfot...

Orphrey

A band of rich embroidery wholly or in part of gold affixed to vestments especially those of ecclesiastics...

Revestiary

The apartment in a church or temple where the vestments etc are kept now contracted into vestry...

Sacristy

An apartment in a church where the sacred utensils vestments etc are kept a vestry...

Sexton

An under officer of a church whose business is to take care of the church building and the vessels vestments etc belonging to the church to attend on the officiating clergyman and to perform other duties pertaining to the church such as to dig graves ring the bell etc...

Vestry, or vestiary

Vestry, or vestiary, a place or room adjoining to a church, where the vestments of the minister are kept; also, a parochial assembly commonly convened in the vestry, to transact the parish business. By custom in some parishes, and by the (adoptive) Vestries Act, 1831 (1 & 2 Wm. 4 c. 60), in others, a select number of parishioners was chosen yearly to manage the concerns of the parish for that year. They were called a Select Vestry.The non-ecclesiastical functions of vestries are now exercised by borough and urban district councils under orders of the Ministry of Health: see (English) Local Government act, 1894 (56 & 57 Vict. c. 73), and Local Govt. Act, 1933 (23 & 24 Geo. 5, c. 51), and in rural parishes by the parish council or meeting (ibid.). As to the ecclesiastical functions in England (election of churchwardens), see Parochial Church Councils (Powers) Measure, 1921 (11 & 12 Geo. 5, No. 1), s. 13. This measure transferred all such ecclesiastical functions, except ecclesiastical ch...

Chasuble

The outer vestment worn by the priest in saying Mass consisting in the Roman Catholic Church of a broad flat back piece and a narrower front piece the two connected over the shoulders only The back has usually a large cross the front an upright bar or pillar designed to be emblematical of Christs sufferings In the Greek Church the chasuble is a large round mantle...

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