[a. OF. chapelerie, in med.L. capellāria; see -ERY, -RY.]
1. The district attached to a chapel; a division of a large or populous parish having its own parochial or district chapel.
1591. Charter Jas. VI., in A. McKay, Hist. Kilmarnock, App., Chapelries.
1669. Woodhead, St. Teresa, II. xxxii. 212. The Chaplain living in another house of the Chappelry.
1672. Cowel’s Interpr., Chapelry is the same thing to a Chappel, as a Parish is to a Church.
1753. [see CHAPELWARDEN].
1814. Wordsw., Excurs., VII. This remote and humble chapelry … offered to his doubtful choice By an unthought-of patron.
1870. A. Sedgwick, Supp. to Mem. Trustees Cowgill Chapel, 3. A district Chapelry was annexed to the Chapel of Cowgill in the Parochial Chapelry of Dent, in the parish of Sedbergh.
1870. F. Wilson, Ch. Lindisf., 21. Ancroft is one of the Chapelries … of Holy Island.
1885. Act 48 Vict., c. 15 Sched. ii. I. No. 2. The rectory, Vicarage, chapelry, or benefice to which the rentcharge belongs.
† 2. The constituency of a Nonconformist chapel. Obs.
1707. Deed of Risley Chapel, Culcheth, Indenture Mch. 25. Whereas an edifice, Chapel, or ortary, is this year erected at the cost of … Protestants dissenting from the Church of England … Trustees with the consent … of the members of that Chapelry or congregation and not otherwise nominate … the minister.
3. A foundation for a chantry chaplain.
1877. Wraxall, trans. Hugo’s Miserables, II. lxvi. The same who endowed the sixth chapelry of the Abbey of Villers.
4. A chapel with its precinct and its accessory buildings; a chapel-stead.
1817. Coleridge, Lay Serm., 378. To seek protection in the vaulted doorway of a lone chapelry.
a. 1845. Barham, Ingol. Leg. (1877), 370. The neighbouring chapelry, the site of which may yet be traced.
