churches of ease

Noun

church of ease (plural churches of ease)

1. Synonym of chapel of ease.
   • Very probable it is, on the other hand, that if the distinction of parishes was began before this time, it had hitherto made but a little progress; and that those few churches which had been erected in towns and villages, were chapels or churches of ease to the mother churches of the diocese rather...1756, The Ecclesiastical History Of England To The Eighteenth Century, page 141

   Synonyms:

   chapel of ease