Chappel

St Barnabas, Chappel

PONTISBRIGHT, or CHAPEL, a parish in the Witham division of the hundred of LEXDEN, county of ESSEX, 5½ miles (N E) from Great Coggeshall, containing 331 inhabitants. The living is a perpetual curacy, in the archdeaconry of Colchester, and diocese of London, and in the patronage of the Parishioners.
Samuel Lewis A Topographical Dictionary of England (1831)


Chappel Baptisms DP 87-1-1 1538-1764

Chappel Burials DP 87-1-1 1538-1764

Chappel Marriages DP 87-1-1 1538-1764

Further registers for Chappel are included in the FreeREG database.


  • Chappel is part of the Lexden Hundred
  • History of Chappel