chapelry
Britishnoun
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The chapelry included within its bounds the townships or hamlets of Stanbury and Near and Far Oxenhope, with the extensive moors and scattered houses stretching to the borders of Lancashire.
From The Bront? Family, Vol. 1 of 2 with special reference to Patrick Branwell Bront? by Francis A. Leyland
In 1841 the population of the chapelry was only 1526.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" by Various
The nave is on the north side of the church; the south aisle appears to end as a chapelry.
From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Edwin Walford
A church, a chapelry of Minstead, certainly stood here in the thirteenth century, but was destroyed, and a Georgian building erected —in its turn to give place to the church we see.
From England of My Heart : Spring by Edward Hutton
The first formed part of the parish of St. Lawrence, which was itself a mere chapelry of Minster till late in the thirteenth century.
From Science in Arcady by Grant Allen
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