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church house noun A building where religious worship services are held (i.e. in contrast to church in the sense of the larger institution or denomination of members). [DARE labels this term “chiefly South Midland, South”]
1874 Elijoy Church Minutes 130 Church met & ... Apointed Jacob Tipton H H gamble & Willoughby Rogers a Committa for the Purpous of geting up means & to imploy Some Person to keep the Church house in order keep the windows and doors Shut also to keep fire lights & water. 1913 Morley Carolina Mts 90 From the lonely little “church-house” a path guides you to the top of Glassy Rock, whose steep front shines like glass when wet—which is much of the time. 1937 Hall Coll (Copeland Creek TN) The first church house on Webb’s Creek was Evans Chapel. 1971 AOHP/ALC-33 They was a little log cabin there. They built it out of logs, and they hewed logs out and put them inside for people to sit on, and it was built on the dirt, and that was the first little church house that I ever knowed of. 1989 Matewan OHP-23 They had the revivals at their church, at the church house.