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1440–1 Norwich Sacrist's Roll Pro magnis portis de le prechyngyerd juxta Carnarium.

1549 H. Latimer 2nd Serm. before Kynges Maiestie 5th Serm. sig. Pvii Scala celi, is a preachynge matter..and not a massing mater.

1556 in J. G. Nichols Chron. Grey Friars (1852) 20 Pecoke..stode at Powlles crosse,..& there he abjuryd & revokyd them in the prechenynge tyme in the presens of the byshoppe of Cauntorbury.

1571 A. Golding tr. J. Calvin Psalmes of Dauid with Comm. (xxix. 9) To appoint the temple as it were the preaching place of God's glory.

1641 Arminian Nunnery 7 By the preaching-place stood the Font.

1768 J. Wesley Let. 6 Aug. (1931) V. 100 We have no other preaching-place in or near that populous quarter of the town.

1810 C. Anderson Let. in H. Anderson Life & Lett. C. Anderson (1854) iv. 115 Brother Barclay has been out on a seven or eight days' preaching tour through a most destitute part of the country.

1848 Wesleyan Missionary Notices 6 164/1 In my last I expressed a desire..to open a preaching-place in a mountain district [of Jamaica].

1856 H. B. Stowe Dred I. xxiii. 314 The assembly poured in and arranged themselves before the preaching-stand.

1870 Atlanta (Georgia) Constit. 17 Aug. The Bishop of Manchester has decided that in the English Church the black preaching gown is illegal.

1934 Times 31 Aug. 6/4 He sent over to a neighbouring Anglican priest and borrowed a preaching stole and a biretta.

1960 Church & People Nov.–Dec. 182 Africans flocking to our Mission churches and preaching places.

1972 Country Life 17 Feb. 408/1 One such building at Sare dedicated to Saint Francis Xavier has a most unusual statue in coloured wood showing the saint in cassock, surplice and preaching stole.

2002 Daily Tel. 21 Nov. 29/1 An Astra van..would also be handy on preaching tours when there was nowhere to lay his head.