Chapel of ease

In such a case the parish church will be in the main settlement, with one or more chapels of ease in the subordinate village(s) and/or hamlet(s).

The chapel was built in Davidsonville from 1860 to 1865 because the parish's "Brick Church" in South River was 5 miles (8 km) distance which took an hour to walk each way.

An example in the New World is Saint John's Chapel of Ease in Chamcook, New Brunswick, Canada, which was built in the 1840s to support a gentleman's house and the small nearby settlement of shipbuilders, farmers, and a grist-mill.

For centuries St Mary's was the parish church, located near to Wiston House and therefore the centre of population, whilst All Saints' served the nearby hamlet of Buncton, as a chapel of ease.

Today, however, the resident population of Wiston is tiny, whilst Buncton has grown, so that in 2007 the status of the buildings was reversed, with All Saints' becoming the parish church, and St Mary's reduced to a chapel of ease.

St Nicholas' Chapel in King's Lynn , England's largest chapel of ease
All Saints' Church at Buncton in West Sussex dates from the 11th or 12th century.
Trinity Church in 1879, the chapel-of-ease in the City of Hamilton , Bermuda , for the then- Bishop of Newfoundland and Bermuda (the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist was at St. John's , Newfoundland ).
St. John the Baptist Chapel of Ease in Chamcook, New Brunswick .