As nouns the difference between hermitage and chapel
is that
hermitage is a house or dwelling where a hermit lives while
chapel is a place of worship, smaller than, or subordinate to a church.
As an adjective chapel is
describing a person who attends a nonconformist chapel.
As a verb chapel is
to cause (a ship taken aback in a light breeze) to turn or make a circuit so as to recover, without bracing the yards, the same tack on which she had been sailing.