COLLEGIATE CHURCH
Collegiate church: translation
A church, not a *cathedral, endowed for a *chapter of canons or prebends. These establishments were served by groups of secular *clergy, forming an association or college. They were known in the AS period as *minsters. Some became *chantries of a very costly kind; some became parish churches or were dissolved; others were taken over by the new orders of the 12c, e.g. the *Augustinians. Those at Westminster and Windsor, St George's Chapel, survived until the 1530s.