Chapaize (French pronunciation: [ʃapɛz]) is a commune in the Saône-et-Loire department in the region of Bourgogne-Franche-Comté in eastern France.

It features a Romanesque church built in the 11th century, in lombard style, surrounded by stone-built houses with the typical covered galleries of this region with a 16th-century watch tower. In the hamlet of Lancharre, there is a church of the 12th century, remains of a canonnesse's monastery.

Around Chapaize lie a large state and communal forest and two ponds. In the 4 hamlets of Chapaize (Bessuge, Gemaugue, Lancharre and Chapaize), there are several laundrettes which were still used at the beginning of the 1950s.

• Communes of the Saône-et-Loire department

• Photos tagged with "Chapaize" at Flickr
• www.chapaize.org Archived 2009-04-02 at the Wayback Machine
• www.art-roman.net/chapaize.htm
• Pictures of the church
• Chapaize on the site Bourgogne Romane