[f. CHURCH sb. + -LET.] A little or diminutive church.
1659. Gauden, Tears Ch., I. i. 32 (D.). The many defects … incident to these … little Churchlets and scattered Conventicles.
1883. M. Deane, Quatrefoil, I. ix. 139. Founded by one Clement, who elected himself to be father of a churchlet.
