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]

  • 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.

References

  1. ↑ Chapels of Ease | Heritage Library Foundation, archived from the original on 2012-04-15, retrieved 2025-04-03{{citation}}: CS1 maint: bot: original URL status unknown (link)
  2. ↑ The History of All Hallows Parish | allhallows.ang-md.org, archived from the original on 2014-05-06, retrieved 2025-04-03
  3. ↑ About St. Thomas Aquinas Parish | paloaltocatholic.net, archived from the original on 2012-04-14, retrieved 2025-04-03
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