chapel
chapel
Definition
chapel (c̸hap′əl)
noun
- a place of Christian worship subordinate to and smaller than a church
- a room or building used as a place of worship, as in a hospital, school, or army post
- a room in a funeral home for funeral services
- a room or recess in a church, set apart for special services and having its own altar
- a similar room in some Jewish synagogues
- a service in a chapel, or any religious service, as at a school
- the singers of a private chapel, collectively
- a local chapter of a printers' union
- in Great Britain, any place of worship for those who are not members of an established church
Etymology: ME & OFr chapelle < ML cappella, dim. of cappa, cape < LL: orig., sanctuary in which the cappa or cope of St. Martin was preserved; then, any sanctuary
chapel
Synonyms
chapel
Usage Examples
Preposition: of
- ease: A chapel of ease is recorded on the site in 1250.
Converse of object
- dedicate: But the south aisle here may actually have been built as a chapel dedicated to the Holy Cross.
- erect: The King frequently saw the Troops exercise, and his Majesty had a tent and chapel erected on the Heath for his own use.
- ruin: The old hamlet lay around the ruined chapel to the south, on the county boundary, where there are still traces of cottages.
- found: License to John Lovekyn to appropriate twelve librates of land to the chapel founded and built by his father.
- build: At the age of 70 years he arrived home to fulfill his dream of building a chapel for the people of the Braes.
- convert: The family celebrated the baptism in a converted chapel in the grounds of the family home.
Adjective modifier
- Nonconformist: Landlords could also refuse to let their tenants have land on which to build Nonconformist chapels and meeting houses.
- Baptist: In the village is a small Baptist chapel, rebuilt in 1832, in which service is performed monthly.
- dissenting: The laundry is an adaptation in 1887-8 by C.E. Davis of a dissenting chapel.
- mortuary: Dawson's view was that this was solely a mortuary chapel built at the beginning of the 18thC.
- Unitarian: The Unitarian chapel, Ipswich, is located in Friars Street beside the Willis Faber building.
- Independent: The room in which the school is held is over a large stable, joining an Independent chapel.
Modifies a noun
- choir: As a Welshman originating from the Rhondda he has sung with both church and chapel choirs since the age of eight years old.
Noun used with modifier
- chantry: Another crosshead is built into the east wall of the chantry chapel, outside.
- non-conformist: Photo by Peter Wood, May 2005 Chapel Rolls The names on two Non-conformist chapel memorials are listed here.
- crematorium: Crematorium chapels are not consecrated but are usually dedicated.
- wayside: Holy Sepulcher was not built as a parish church, but as a wayside chapel, or oratory.
- Methodist: A possible point of confusion I: the former St Peter's Street methodist chapel, a survivor.
- chancel: In the south chancel chapel is the famous St Edmund bench end, attached to a modern bench.
chapel Quotes
I went to the Garden of Love, And saw what I never had seen: A chapel was built in the midst Where I used to play on the green.
Wherever God erects a house of prayer, The Devil always builds a chapel there; And 'twill be found, upon examination, The latter hast the largest congregation.
I've finished that chapel I was painting. The Pope is quite satisfied.
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