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Definition of Chapels

1. chapel [n] - See also: chapel

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapels

Literary usage of Chapels

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Catholic Encyclopedia: An International Work of Reference on the by Charles George Herbermann (1913)
"I01; 47 priests, 1 native priest, 11430 Christians, 4094 catechumens, 37 churches and chapels. Third Region, including the following vicariates Apostolic: ..."

2. Transactions by Ecclesiological Society (1885)
"The subject of bridge and wayside chapels opens up a large and varied field ... Before the Reformation, chapels for private use were more frequently found ..."

3. A History of Architectural Development by Frederick Moore Simpson (1909)
"These side chapels, one to each bay of the nave, are separated from one another by walls, and are, so to speak, distinct shrines. ..."

4. The New Schaff-Herzog Encyclopedia of Religious Knowledge: Embracing by Johann Jakob Herzog, Philip Schaff, Albert Hauck (1909)
"Of 29632 churches and chapels registered for the solemnization of marriage ... The Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion, with forty-four chapels and mission ..."

5. Parish Priests and Their People in the Middle Ages in England by Edward Lewes Cutts (1898)
"When these chapels were erected, care was taken of the rights of the mother church. Constitutions of Egbert, Archbishop of York in 750, decree that the ..."

6. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1875)
"The principal of the minor denominations were the Unitarians, who had 352 chapels, and 355 ministers ; the Jews, who had about 80 synagogues, 100 ministers, ..."

7. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1874)
"The number of cherches and chapels in New South Wales i-, in 1872, ... There were 1232 churches and chapels, and, with the exception of a small vote of ..."

8. Gothic Architecture in England: An Analysis of the Origin & Development of by Francis Bond (1906)
"The usual number of these radiating chapels is three. Lewes, a Cluniac abbey, as remodelled soon after 1100, had five of these chapels, probably copying the ..."

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