Clergy house - wikipedia Clergy house `` Parish house '' redirects here. For the community building associated with a church, sometimes called `` parish house '' or `` parish hall '', see Church hall. `` Parsonage '' redirects here. For an allowance paid to ordained ministers in Canada and the United States, see Clergy housing allowance. This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( December 2009 ) What is now the Brontë Parsonage Museum, former home of the Brontë family, Haworth, West Yorkshire from 1820 -- 1861 A clergy house is the residence, or former residence, of one or more priests or ministers of religion. Contents 1 Function 2 Nomenclature 3 Image gallery 4 See also 5 References Function Clergy houses are typically owned and maintained by a church, as a benefit to its clergy. The practice exists in many denominations because of the tendency of clergy to be transferred from one church to another at relatively frequent intervals. Catholic clergy houses in particular may be lived in by several priests from a parish. Clergy houses frequently serve as the administrative office of the local parish as well as a residence ; they are normally located next to, or at least close to, the church their occupant serves. Partly because of the general conservationism of churches, many clergy houses are of historic interest or even importance. In the United Kingdom the 14th - century Alfriston Clergy House was the first property to be acquired by the National Trust. It was purchased in a state of near ruin in 1896 for £ 10, the vicarage having moved elsewhere long before. In some countries where the clergy houses were often rather grand they have now been sold off by the churches, exchanged for more modest properties. In England the `` Old Vicarage '' or `` Old Rectory '' is very common in villages, as a comfortable home for the upper middle - classes, and in Scotland the `` Old Manse ''. Others are now offices or used for various functions. In Poland they call it `` Plebania ''. Nomenclature There are a number of more specific terms whose use depends on the rank of the occupant, the denomination and the locality. Above the parish level, traditionally a bishop 's house was called a Bishop 's Palace, a dean lives in a deanery, and a canon in a canonry or `` canon 's house ''. Other titles may have different names for their houses. A rectory is the residence, or former residence, of an ecclesiastical rector, although also in some cases an academic rector ( e.g. a Scottish university rector ) or other person with that title. In North American Anglicanism a far greater proportion of parish clergy were and are titled rectors than in Britain, so the rectory is more common there. The names used for homes of the ordinary parish clergy vary considerably, and generalization is difficult : In the Anglican Communion vicarage or ( more informal and old - fashioned ) parsonage, and rectory if appropriate. Roman Catholics use priory, clergy house, parochial house ( mostly Ireland ), chapel house ( in Scotland ), presbytery and rectory if appropriate. In the Philippines, the term convent is used, a direct calque of the Spanish convento. Manse ( cognate with mansion ) is a Scottish term, used in Scottish Presbyterianism, and general in other parts of the British Isles by Non-conformist Churches such as the Methodists and the United Reformed Church. This word is also commonly used by Baptists in the United Kingdom and some Commonwealth countries. Pastorium is the usual term in the Southern United States, especially among Baptists. Lutheran churches often use parsonage. Parish house is used by many denominations Image gallery A rectory in Thuringia, Germany. Halton Vicarage, England ; 1739 and still used. An 1887 Catholic rectory in Ohio The West Manse, Sanday, Scotland ( formerly the Free Kirk manse ). The rectory in Edsleskog, Dalsland, Sweden. Of 1923 rectory in Bączal Dolny, Poland. The rectory in Valö, Uppland, Sweden. Sacred Heart Cathedral Rectory in Davenport, Iowa, USA Old rectory of Deschambault ( 1815 - 1818 ), Canada The old vicarage, Morwenstow, England See also Christianity portal Clergy housing allowance References Wikimedia Commons has media related to Clergy residences. Jump up ^ Walker, Marianna ( 1 June 2008 ). `` 50 National Trust hidden gems ''. The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2010 - 07 - 07. Jump up ^ `` Manses and Church Houses ''. Baptist Union of Great Britain. Retrieved 13 September 2016. Jump up ^ `` North Adelaide Baptist Church - Manse ''. Adelaide City Council. Retrieved 13 September 2016. 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