Definition of Chapelry. Meaning of Chapelry. Synonyms of Chapelry

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Definition of Chapelry

Chapelry
Chapelry Chap"el*ry, n. [Cf. OF. chapelerie.] The territorial district legally assigned to a chapel.

Meaning of Chapelry from wikipedia

- Look up chapelry in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. A chapelry was a subdivision of an ecclesiastical parish in England and parts of Lowland Scotland...
- Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, Dobcross was once a chapelry in the Quickmere division of Saddleworth. For centuries, Dobcross was a...
- church administration, although parts of a parish may be subdivided as a chapelry, with a chapel of ease or filial church serving as the local place of worship...
- (24 km) north of Scarborough on the Yorkshire Coast. It is an ancient chapelry of Fylingdales in the wapentake of Whitby Strand. It is on the Cleveland...
- in 1312, Hamyrsmyth in 1535, and Hammersmith 1675. The district was a chapelry of the ancient parish of Fulham, but became a fully independent parish...
- each ancient parish whilst the second one gives information about each chapelry that may exist within each ancient parish. This complexity is brought about...
- Stoke-upon-Trent, the original ancient parish, with other settlements being chapelries. Stoke derives from the Old English stoc, a word that at first meant little...
- as the ancient parish of Hornchurch which was divided into the three chapelries of Havering, Hornchurch and Romford. The name Havering is recorded in...
- containing within them around a hundred townships and hamlets (some being chapelries). For example, Swinfen and ****ngton were hamlets of the ancient parish...
- and administratively, it proved much more acceptable to elevate former chapelries to parish status, or create ecclesiastical districts with new churches...