freechapels
freechapels is the plural of freechapel.
Meaning of freechapel
Noun
freechapel (plural freechapels)
- A chapel founded by the king of England or built under a grant from the king, which is not subject to the jurisdiction of the local bishop or other ruling member of the clergy.
- Radfield-Chapel, (Kent,) in the p. of Bapchild, had once a freechapel, the ruins of which are yet remaining; the lands of which were by K. Edw VI. given to John Bateman, whose successor gave it by will to John Bateman of Wormsell. The steeple of its Ch. is a sea-mark.1751, Stephen Whatley, England's Gazetteer
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- What is freechapels the plural of?
- Freechapels is the plural of freechapel.
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