Chapel of ease
A chapel of ease (or chapel-of-ease) is a church building other than the parish church, built within the bounds of a parish for the attendance of those who cannot reach the parish church conveniently, generally due to travel distance.[1]
Often a chapel of ease is deliberately built as such, being more accessible to some parishioners than the main church. Such a chapel may exist, for example, when a parish covers several dispersed villages, or a central village together with its satellite hamlet or hamlets. In such a case the parish church will be in the main settlement, with one or more chapels of ease in the subordinate village(s) and/or hamlet(s).[2] When two or more existing parishes are combined into a single parish, one or more of the old church buildings may be kept as a chapel of ease.[3]
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All Saints' Church in West Sussex dates from the 11th or 12th century.
St Nicholas' Chapel in King's Lynn, England's largest chapel of ease.
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Trinity Church in 1879, the chapel-of-ease in the City of Hamilton, Bermuda, for the then-Bishop of Newfoundland and Bermuda (the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist was at St. John's, Newfoundland).
St. John the Baptist Chapel of Ease in Chamcook, New Brunswick
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References
- ↑ Chapels of Ease | Heritage Library Foundation (in en). Retrieved 2025-04-03.
- ↑ The History of All Hallows Parish | allhallows.ang-md.org (in en). Retrieved 2025-04-03.
- ↑ About St. Thomas Aquinas Parish | paloaltocatholic.net (in en). Retrieved 2025-04-03.