Civic Trust Plaques: Bedern Chapel and the Vicars Choral

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12th May
Civic Trust Plaques: Bedern Chapel and the Vicars Choral
Stephen Lewis StephenLewisYrk
 

In the year 1252 the Vicars Choral of York - the priests who sang mass and conducted daily prayer and worship in York Minster - were formed into a college and assigned their own precinct next to the cathedral. This became known as Bedern, from the early English words bede (prayer) and aern (house).

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/16220952.Gambling__fighting_and_womanising__meet_the_medieval_Vicars_Choral_of_York/?ref=mac