Abstract
Abstract A chapel is a space reserved for religious services concerning, for example, saints’ anniversaries, devotions to the Virgin, or private devotion alone, as opposed to a church, which has multiple functions. The largest number of chapels are those which form part of a church and those which are dependent on parish churches. Apart from these, the majority of chapels with architectural pretensions are to be found in the castles and other dwellings of royalty and the aristocracy, in palaces in the widest sense. While no palace chapels have survived from the Anglo-Saxon period, they are known to have existed. Alfred’s church at Athelney in Somerset, for example, may have been one, given its royal patron and what appears from William of Malmesbury’s description to have been its centralized plan.
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