chapel of ease

a chapel in a remote part of a large parish, in which Mass is celebrated.

Origin of chapel of ease

First recorded in 1530–40

Meantime you have no church to go to nearer than Barmstoke, which is a chapel-of-ease to this place, but two miles distant.

It Is Never Too Late to Mend |Charles Reade
It has no parish church, but only a chapel-of-ease to an adjacent parish.

From London to Land's End |Daniel Defoe
But our primitive stage was a chapel-of-ease, as it were, to the Church.

A Book of the Play |Dutton Cook
Mrs. Marlowe was going with her to the chapel-of-ease at East Lafer but would not get out.

Mrs. Severn, Vol. 1 (of 3) |Mary Elizabeth Carter

At the chapel-of-ease attended by the troops there arose above the edge of the pulpit one Sunday an unknown face.

A Changed Man and Other Tales |Thomas Hardy

chapel of ease

a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church