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EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A little distance away the spire of the old minster soared towards the clouds.
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As well as major settlements with minsters, hamlets and farms may well have had their own small churches.
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It is dominated by its minster , the collegiate church of St Peter and St Paul.
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It only left one problem, which minster is physically capable of carrying a struggling woman upstairs in a fireman's lift?
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Many old established monasteries acted as minsters, or the major churches serving particular estates.
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Many such minsters were on royal or major ancient ecclesiastical estates, often at the caputs of such estates.
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This dependence is demonstrated in the subsidiary status of their churches, which were daughter churches to the minster .
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This difference between the two archbishops was illustrated over the memorial requiem in York minster for Lord Halifax.