CHAPEL OF EASE

Chapel of ease: translation

A church founded in that part of a parish with a new population, or on *assarted land, the original church being distant from newcomers. Not all such chapels became permanent, having only temporary licences. The AS called them 'field churches'. Their continuation depended on the owner of the land and the prosperity of the new land. If successful, then a new endowment would be established.

Cf. Chapel; Chapelry