kyrkmaster

English

Alternative forms

• kirkmaster

Etymology

From kyrk +‎ master.

Noun

kyrkmaster (plural kyrkmasters)

1. (obsolete, Christianity, Northern England, Scotland) A churchwarden.
   • 1835, “CCCIV. Testamentum Johannis Sandford de Tikhill. [M. f. 563-b]”, in Testamenta Eboracensia; or, Wills Registered at York,  […], London: J. B. Nichols and Son, page 417:

     Item to the makyng of the stepell of Tykhill c^s., a cart with iiij hors. Item to the kyrkmasters a nobill. Item to Kateryn, the doghter of Robert his son, a caldron, a pot, and a littell posnet. […] [6 Sep. 1429.]

   • 1886 February 8, John Shiell, “Notice of Carved Oak Panels Which Were Formerly in the Chapel of the Fransiscan Nunnery in Dundee”, in Proceedings of the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland, volume XX, Edinburgh, page 122:

     Another entry shows that Henry Barry one of the witnesses to the grant, was at one time Kirkmaster:—"The Preuost and Counsall has grantit til Henry Barry and till Marione of Bum, his wyf, thar laris within the Kirk or queyr of Dunde, quhar thai pies til haff thame becaus the said Henry gef to the Kyrk werk his fee that pertenit til hym the tyme that he wes kyrkmaster, and a rest of silver that tha aucht till hym."

   • 1898, Sir Stephen Glynne, 9th Baronet, “Church Notes”, in The Antiquary: A Magazine Devoted to the Study of the Past, volume XXXIV, page 279:

     "Upon a pew in Thornton Church is the following inscription cut in black letter upon oak:
     " In the yer yat all the stalles
     in thys chyrch wā mayd
     Thomas Kijrkbe ihо̄n skre
     bye hew resten ihon smyth
     Kyrkmasters in the yer of owre Lorde God mccccc xxxii."

   • 1903, “Giggleswick Grammar School”, in Arthur Francis Leach, editor, Early Yorkshire Schools, volume II,  […] J. Whitehead and Son for the Yorkshire Archaeological Society, page 233:

     [1507. 12 Nov.] […] "Provided allway that when soever the said Jamys Karr shall change his naturall lyfe, that then it shalbe lawfuU, as ofte tymes as it shalbe nedfuU, to the vicar of ye churche afforsaid for the tyme beyng and kyrkmasters of the same, heires executors and assignes to the said Jamys jontle, to electe one person beyng within holye orders, to be scole master of the gramer scole afforsaid, whiche so electe, and abled by the Prior of Duresme, shall have occupye and rejoce the said halfif acre of land and the hows therapon beildyd with the appurtenaunce, in lyk wyse as the said Jamys occupyed and usyd in hys tyme. […] ”

   • 1907 October, David Patrick, “General Statutes of 1549”, in Statutes of the Scottish Church 1225-1559  […], Edinburgh:  […] T. and A. Constable for the Scottish History Society, page 119:

     At St. Andrews there was a special ' Master of the Kyrk werk ' or ' Kyrkmaster' responsible for the fabric of the parish church as early at least as 1503 ; in 1598 the office was still filled by a ' Kirkmaister.'

   • 1983, “Rental of the Town's Land, 1465”, in Rosemary Horrox, editor, Selected Rentals and Accounts Medieval Hull 1293-1528, England:  […] The University of Leeds Printing Service for the Yorkshire Archæological Society, page 116:

     The kyrkmasters of the Trinete kyrk for a Garthen behynd the mason loge yerly