chapelryn.
/ˈtʃapəlri/ 1. The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large or populous parish having its own parochial or district chapel.
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society > authority > rule or government > territorial jurisdiction or areas subject to > an administrative division of territory > [noun] > administrative divisions in Britain > chapelry
township1540
chapelry1591
society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > parish priest > jurisdiction of or parish > division of
chapelry1591
chapelcy1594
1591 Charter James VI in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock App. Chapelries.
1669 A. Woodhead tr. Life St. Teresa (1671) ii. xxxii. 212 The Chaplain living in another house of the Chappelry.
1672 Cowel's Interpr. Chapelry is the same thing to a Chappel, as a Parish is to a Church.
1753 Scots Mag. Sept. 435/1 The churchwardens and chapelwardens of every parish or chapelry.
1814 W. Wordsworth Excursion vii. 315 This remote and humble Chapelry..offered to his doubtful choice By an unthought of Patron.
1870 A. Sedgwick Supp. to Mem. Trustees Cowgill Chapel 3 A district Chapelry was annexed to the Chapel of Cowgill in the Parochial Chapelry of Dent, in the parish of Sedbergh.
1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 21 Ancroft is one of the Chapelries..of Holy Island.
1885 Act 48 Vict. (c. 15 Sched. ii. No. 2) The rectory, vicarage, chapelry, or benefice to which the rentcharge belongs.
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society > faith > church government > laity > congregation > [noun] > nonconformist
chapelry1707
1707 Deed of Risley Chapel, Culcheth, Indenture Mch. 25 Whereas an edifice, Chapel, or ortary, is this year erected at the cost of..Protestants dissenting from the Church of England..Trustees with the consent..of the members of that Chapelry or congregation and not otherwise nominate..the minister.
3. A foundation for a chantry chaplain.
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society > faith > church government > member of the clergy > priest > kinds of priest > [noun] > chantry-priest > foundation for
chantry1394
mansionary1651
chapelry1877
1877 F. C. L. Wraxall tr. V. Hugo Les Misérables ii. lxvi The same who endowed the sixth chapelry of the Abbey of Villers.
4. A chapel with its precinct and its accessory buildings; a chapel-stead.
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society > faith > artefacts > land > [noun] > churchyard > of chapel
chapellage1800
chapelry1817
1817 S. T. Coleridge Blessed are ye that Sow Introd. p. xxi To seek protection in the vaulted door-way of a lone chapelry.
1840 R. H. Barham Leech of Folkestone in Ingoldsby Legends 1st Ser. 128 The neighbouring chapelry, the site of which may yet be traced.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2018).
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