chapels
- Term Type
Art & Architecture Thesaurus
- Preferred Term
chapels
- Details
Rooms or small buildings that serve as sanctuaries or places of Christian worship. A chapel may be used for private worship in or attached to a church, palace, house, prison, monastery, or school. It may alternatively be used for public worship of the established Church, subordinate to or dependent upon the parish church, the accommodation supplied by which it in some way supplements. The concept includes both freestanding chapels and rooms or recesses serving as chapels in churches or other buildings. The Latin "cappella" or the French-derived "chappelle" or "chapelle" are occasionally used for "chapel" in English texts. The term may also be used in its original meaning, which was to refer specifically to the shrine in which the kings of France preserved the cape (cloak) of St. Martin.
- Variations
chapel
chappelle
chapelles
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