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unusual facts about Chapel of ease



Bow Church

The church (as a chapel of ease) was licensed by Bishop Ralph Baldock of London on 17 November 1311 for the people of Bow and Old Ford within the parish of Stepney.

Holbeach Fen

St John’s chapel of ease was erected in 1840 by Robert Eliot of Fleet on land donated by the Duke of Somerset KG, and by subscription, particularly from Bishop Kaye of Lincoln.

St John's Church, Workington

St John's was built between 1822 and 1823, and was designed by Thomas Hardwick, originally as a chapel of ease.

St Mary's Church, Tal-y-llyn

It was originally a chapel of ease for the parish church of St Peulan's, Llanbeulan, but the township that it once served, Tal-y-llyn, no longer exists.

St Richard's Church, Haywards Heath

The present reinforced concrete and brick structure replaced a temporary building which was a daughter church to Haywards Heath's parish church, St Wilfrid's; the new church soon became parished in its own right to reflect the rapid population growth in the northern part of the town.

St Saviour's, Walmer

It was built in 1848, in the Neo-Gothic architectural style, as a chapel of ease for the town's boatmen (who, in the days of sail, took supplies out to vessels in the Downs) and to take the pressure off Old St Mary's (previously the parish's only church).

St. Margaret's Church, Rochester

St Margaret's Church, Rochester is now a Chapel of Ease within the parish of St Peter with St Margaret, Rochester.

Strete

Until 1881 Strete was part of Blackawton parish and there a small medieval chapel of ease here until 1836 when the present church, dedicated to St Michael, was built on the same site, incorporating the chapel's tower.


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Aedanus Burke

Interment was in the cemetery of the Chapel of Ease of St. Bartholomew's Parish, near Jacksonboro, South Carolina.

Guyhirn

In 1973 the "Friends of the Guyhirn Chapel of Ease" was formed under the presidency of Sir John Betjeman, the Poet Laureate, who on his death was succeeded by well-known author Edward Storey.

Nonington

In 1800, Edward Hasted noted, that the church of Nonington was antiently (an old spelling of ancient), a chapel of ease to that of Wingham, and was on the foundation of the college there by Archbishop Peckham in 1286.

Old Church of St George, Hill Street Dublin

Therefore St George's church, Hill Street, may have been a Chapel-of-Ease to St. Michan's Church in Church Street.

St John, Friern Barnet

Originating in 1883 as a chapel-of-ease to Friern Barnet parish church it was initially a temporary iron structure on the north side of Friern Barnet Road and known as the school-church of St John, on account of classes being kept there by the Friern Barnet Grammar School.

St Mary Magdalene Church, Holloway Road

Building & Gardens: The church was built in 1814 to a design by William Wickings as a chapel of ease to the parish church of St. Mary's farther south on Upper Street.

St Peter's Church, Petersfield

A chapel of ease was originally built, and called 'St. Peter's in-the-veld' (veld - meaning an open and clear place), within the manor of Mapledurham (later Buriton).

St Stephen's Church, Dublin

It was originally conceived as a chapel-of-ease for the parish of St. Peter's, which was the largest Church of Ireland parish in Dublin.

St. Paul's Church, George Street, Nottingham

Paul's Chapel of Ease', as it was then called, public opinion was running high against King George IV for he had refused to allow his wife Caroline to be crowned, notwithstanding this, the King's Coronation was celebrated in Nottingham by the firing of several volleys in the Market Place by the 7th Dragoon Guards, and the Yeomanry Cavalry.

The Lee

The parish church in the village St John the Baptist is unusual in that it consists of two buildings: the ancient chapel of ease built in the 12th century which includes a window depicting Oliver Cromwell and John Hampden as 'champions of liberty', and the more modern Victorian construction that was built of red brick in 1867.