Chantry vs. Chapel — What's the Difference?
Difference Between Chantry and Chapel
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Chantry
A chantry is an ecclesiastical term that may have either of two related meanings: a chantry service, a Christian liturgy of prayers for the dead, which historically was an obiit, or a chantry chapel, a building on private land, or an area in a parish church or cathedral reserved for the performance of the "chantry duties".In the Medieval Era through to the Age of Enlightenment it was commonly believed such liturgies might help atone for misdeeds and assist the soul to obtain eternal peace.
Chapel
A chapel is a Christian place of prayer and worship that is usually relatively small. The term has several senses.
Chantry
An endowment to cover expenses for the saying of masses and prayers, usually for the soul of the founder of the endowment.
Chapel
A place of worship that is smaller than and subordinate to a church.
Chantry
An altar or chapel endowed for the saying of such masses and prayers.
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Chapel
A place of worship in an institution, such as a prison, college, or hospital.
Chantry
An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people
Chapel
A recess or room in a church set apart for special or small services.
Chantry
A chapel set up for this purpose
Chapel
A place of worship for those not belonging to an established church.
Chantry
An endowment or foundation for the chanting of masses and offering of prayers, commonly for the founder.
Chapel
The services held at a chapel
Students attend chapel each morning.
Chantry
A chapel or altar so endowed.
Chapel
(Music) A choir or orchestra connected with a place of worship at a royal court.
Chantry
An endowment for the singing of Masses
Chapel
A funeral home.
Chantry
A chapel endowed for singing Masses for the soul of the donor
Chapel
A room in a funeral home used for conducting funeral services.
Chapel
A place of worship, smaller than or subordinate to a church.
Chapel
A place of worship in another building or within a civil institution such as a larger church, airport, prison, monastery, school, etc.; often primarily for private prayer.
Chapel
A funeral home, or a room in one for holding funeral services.
Chapel
(UK) A trade union branch in printing or journalism.
Chapel
A printing office.
Chapel
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Chapel
(Wales) Describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
The village butcher is chapel.
Chapel
To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
Chapel
To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
Chapel
A subordinate place of worship
Chapel
A place of worship not connected with a church; as, the chapel of a palace, hospital, or prison.
Chapel
In England, a place of worship used by dissenters from the Established Church; a meetinghouse.
Chapel
A choir of singers, or an orchestra, attached to the court of a prince or nobleman.
Chapel
A printing office, said to be so called because printing was first carried on in England in a chapel near Westminster Abbey.
Chapel
To deposit or inter in a chapel; to enshrine.
Chapel
To cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) so to turn or make a circuit as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.
Chapel
A place of worship that has its own altar
Chapel
A service conducted in a chapel;
He was late for chapel
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