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chapelry|ˈtʃæpəlrɪ|
[a. OF. chapelerie, in med.L. capellāria; see -ery, -ry.]
1. The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large or populous parish having its own parochial or district chapel.
1591Charter Jas. VI in A. McKay Hist. Kilmarnock App., Chapelries. 1669Woodhead St. Teresa ii. xxxii. 212 The Chaplain living in another house of the Chappelry. 1672Cowel's Interpr., Chapelry is the same thing to a Chappel, as a Parish is to a Church. 1753[see chapelwarden]. 1814Wordsw. Excurs. vii, This remote and humble chapelry..offered to his doubtful choice By an unthought-of patron. 1870A. 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. 1870F. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 21 Ancroft is one of the Chapelries..of Holy Island. 1885Act 48 Vict. c. 15 Sched. ii. i. No. 2 The rectory, vicarage, chapelry, or benefice to which the rentcharge belongs.
†2. The constituency of a Nonconformist chapel. Obs.
1707Deed 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.
1877Wraxall tr. Hugo's Miserables 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.
1817Coleridge Lay Serm. 378 To seek protection in the vaulted doorway of a lone chapelry. a1845Barham Ingol. Leg. (1877) 370 The neighbouring chapelry, the site of which may yet be traced. |