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Fishermen's Chapel
The Fishermen's Chapel (french: Chapelle-ès-Pêcheurs, Jèrriais: Chapelle ès Pêtcheurs) is a small chapel located beside St Brelade's Church in St Brelade, Jersey, by the shore at the western end of St Brelade's Bay. History Only a few medieval chapels survived the destruction of over fifty others at the hands of the Reformers in the 16th century. This is one of the few remaining with the exception of some Manorial Chapels, and those at La Hougue Bie. The name of the chapel is the Chapelle-ès-Pêcheurs, and it was originally thought to be associated with the fishing guilds said to have existed in the Island. More convincingly, Warwick Rodwell has suggested that "pêcheurs" (fishermen) is a corruption of " pécheurs" ( sinners); this agrees with his archaeological investigations which show the chapel to have been a " chantry chapel", i.e. a chapel funded by a local family to say masses for the souls of the dead. There is no evidence of "fishing guilds". The walls of thi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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Chapelle or La Chapelle may refer to: Communes in France * La Chapelle, Allier * La Chapelle, Ardennes * La Chapelle, Charente * La Chapelle, Savoie * Les Chapelles, Savoie department Other places * Église de la Chapelle or Kapellekerk, a church in Brussels * Quartier de La Chapelle, a neighborhood of Paris, France * La Chapelle (Paris Metro), a metro station in Paris, France * Porte de la Chapelle (Paris Metro), a metro station in Paris, France * Sainte-Chapelle, a Gothic chapel on the Île de la Cité, Paris, France * La Chapelle, Artibonite, a commune in Artibonite department, Haiti * La Chapelle, a commune of Plan-les-Ouates, Switzerland * Chapelle, Glâne, a municipality of the canton of Fribourg, Switzerland * Archbishop Chapelle High School, a high school in New Orleans, United States * Aix-la-Chapelle or Aachen, Germany Other uses * La Chapelle (Church), a Baptist Evangelicalism, Evangelical Multi-site church, multi-site church based in Montreal, Canada. *Chapelle (surn ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |