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What is a chantry?

What is a chantry? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. An endowment for the maintenance of a priest to sing a daily mass for the souls of specified people
  2. A chapel set up for this purpose
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They too had social selves, identities which ranged far outside church or chantry.
Look at yon carven shield,Above the chantry door, No blazoned pride bedecks its field,But emblems five sprent o'er.
Priests received a fee to celebrate a memorial mass in the chantry and further alms were given to those who attended the service.
He is to live in the said chantry, and say mass daily in the chapel thereof.
The warehouse, which includes a watermill and a chantry chapel, won the grant under the Heritage Economic Regeneration Scheme.
At the same time, a chantry was established, served by five priests, who soon afterwards assumed full control of the church.

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