Lee Chapel, East Lee or East Ley is an area of Basildon, in the county of Essex, England. It is about from Chelmsford.
The name "Lee" is Anglo Saxon and means 'woodland clearing', the chapel part comes from a medieval chapel. Lee Chapel was recorded in the Domesday Book as Lea. Lee Chapel was formerly an extra-parochial tract, in 1858 it became a civil parish. In 1894, Lee Chapel became part of Billericay Rural District, in 1935 it became part of Billericay Urban District, on 1 April 1937 the parish was abolished to form Billericay. At the 1931 census (the last before the abolition of the parish), Lee Chapel had a population of 882. In 1955, Lee Chapel became part of Basildon Urban District. In 1974, Lee Chapel became part of Basildon non-metropolitan district in the non-metropolitan county of Essex.