chapel of ease

American  

noun

Roman Catholic Church.

1. a chapel in a remote part of a large parish, in which Mass is celebrated.

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chapel of ease British  

noun

1. a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church

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Etymology

Origin of chapel of ease

First recorded in 1530–40

Example Sentences

And 20th-century Black scholars like John Hope Franklin showed enslaved people as “rebels on the plantation” who challenged white America’s notion of Southern bondage as, in the words of the award-winning scholar Ulrich B. Phillips, “perhaps a chapel of ease.”

From New York Times

At the time, the building was a “chapel of ease,” built and run by the parish of Trinity Church on Wall Street to serve the gentry Mrs. Wharton would later write about: well-to-do society families who had deserted Lower Manhattan for the pleasant upper reaches of the city, in the East and West 20s.

From New York Times

A Chapel of Ease is in the parish of another church and was built to meet an expansion of a town for the convenience of parishioners.

From BBC

Canon p. 180Hoare generally preached in the old Chapel of Ease in the morning, but always occupied his own pulpit in the evening of that day, and what a thronged congregation there was on these occasions! 

From Project Gutenberg

There is no class of persons in the world that has a greater claim on those who know the Lord than that consisting of real inquirers after the way of life.  p. 114Now I met at Ramsgate with many who had had sufficient knowledge of the truth to make them utterly dissatisfied with the Tractarianism in the Parish Church and the Chapel of Ease, but who were longing for something more than they had already found. 

From Project Gutenberg