chapel of ease
- a chapel in a remote part of a large parish, in which Mass is celebrated.
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Origin of chapel of ease
First recorded in 1530–40
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Examples from the Web for chapel of ease
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It is a Chapel-of-ease to Edgbaston, in the gift of the Bishop.
Showell's Dictionary of BirminghamThomas T. Harman and Walter Showell
It has no parish church, but only a chapel-of-ease to an adjacent parish.
From London to Land's EndDaniel Defoe
The church was formerly a chapel-of-ease to that at East Barnet.
HertfordshireHerbert W Tompkins
But our primitive stage was a chapel-of-ease, as it were, to the Church.
A Book of the PlayDutton Cook
The livings, especially in country places, include one or more sub-parishes, each with its own church or chapel-of-ease.
The Norwegian FjordsA. Heaton Cooper
chapel of ease
- a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church
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