Side chapel
A side chapel is a chapel in a church building, usually located adjacent to the nave of the main sanctuary.[1] They are historically found in a number of large Roman Catholic, Evangelical-Lutheran, and Anglican churches. Side chapels include their own altar for the celebration of the Eucharist.[2] Within a church, side chapels may serve various purposes, such as the normative place where baptisms occur or confession and absolution take place.[3] Side chapels may house a relic of a particular saint.[4] Side chapels that are dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary are called Lady chapels; these are common in the Roman Catholic and Evangelical-Lutheran traditions, as well as in some Anglican churches. When serving as the main area in which an anchorite or anchoress prays, a side chapel is called a anchorhold.[4]
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A side chapel of Frötuna Church (Evangelical-Lutheran) in Norrtälje, Sweden
A Lady chapel dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary in the Evangelical Lutheran Church of our Lady in Skänninge, Sweden
The Lady chapel of Evangelical-Lutheran Linköping Cathedral, with its 1987 altarpiece containing scenes from the life of the Blessed Virgin Mary, including the Annunciation to the Blessed Virgin Mary, the Visitation of the Blessed Virgin Mary, and the Purification of the Virgin. On the predella are ten roses cast in bronze, which refer to the Hail Mary and the rosary.[5]
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References
[edit]- ↑ Halsbury, Hardinge Stanley Giffard Earl of; Skottowe, Philip Frederich (1924). The English and Empire Digest: With Complete and Exhaustive Annotations; Being a Complete Digest of Every English Case Reported from Early Times to the Present Day, with Additional Cases from the Courts of Scotland, Ireland, the Empire of India, and the Dominions Beyond the Seas, and Including Complete and Exhaustive Annotations Giving All the Subsequent Cases in which Judicial Opinions Have Been Given Concerning the English Cases Digested. Butterworth. p. 441.
- ↑ "Locations, Architecture, and Windows". The Chapel of Saint John the Divine. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- ↑ McLoughlin, James (14 September 2007). "The Side Chapel". Roman Catholic Diocese of Clogher. Retrieved 18 August 2026.
- 1 2 Rodwell, Warwick (15 May 2012). The Archaeology of Churches. Amberley Publishing Limited. ISBN 978-1-4456-2000-8.
- ↑ "Altarskåpet i Domkyrkans Mariakapell" (in Swedish). Church of Sweden. 2026. Retrieved 3 June 2026.