Also vestry room. [f. VESTRY1.] The vestry of a church; the room in which a parochial vestry assembles.
1710. Lond. Gaz., No. 4721/4. The Vestry-Room of the Parish Church of Lambeth was broke open.
1745. Viner, Abridgm. Law & Equity, XXI. 549. His proper Remedy for the Injury done by the Defendant, by hindring him to come into the Vestry-room.
1810. W. Wilson, Hist. Dissent. Ch., III. 224. He opened a day-school, in the vestry-room of his meeting.
1842. Penny Cycl., XXII. 227/1. It comprehends a nave,… and a chantry, now used as a vestry-room.
1891. ‘S. Mostyn,’ Curatica, 136. I thought I should have seen you in the vestry-room.
attrib. 1838. Dickens, O. Twist, v. The clerk, who was sitting by the vestry-room fire.
