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Six example sentences with parochial, each labelled with its topic.
Parochial registers of baptisms and burials, kept by every church in the county since the 1530s, remain genealogists' best source.
History
The parochial hall next to the churchyard was funded by the congregation and still hosts the village jumble sale.
Architecture
The novel never leaves the parochial world of one church and its rectory: same congregation, same four farms, forty years.
Literature
The parochial choir, twelve villagers and a retired organist, has sung the same Christmas carols in that church for sixty years.
Music
The parochial church owns one treasure, a small painted altarpiece paid for by the parish in 1610 and never moved since.
Art
The guidebook lists the parochial church as the village's only sight, but its painted ceiling alone is worth the detour.
Travel
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