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Definition of Chancels
1. chancel [n] - See also: chancel
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chancels
Literary usage of Chancels
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"... to its perfection in the middle ages the chancels are clearly differentiated
from the nave by structural features: by the raising of the floor level, ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1844)
"Every architectural amateur in Suffolk must be especially interested by the list
of churches with equal chancels, contributed by Mr. ..."
3. Monuments of the Early Church by Walter Lowrie (1901)
"Very few chancels of the early period have been preserved in place; we get,
however, a clear idea of the normal arrangement in S. Clemente at Rome, ..."
4. The Alliance of Divine Offices by Hamon L'Estrange (1846)
"chancels anciently peculiar to the clergy. The emperor only privileged. ...
Why chancels allotted to the clergy only. The people usually received at the ..."
5. History of the Church of England: From the Abolition of the Roman Jurisdiction by Richard Watson Dixon (1885)
"The chancels stood and stand : but it was a sign of the danger of the times that
it was necessary to order their preservation in a rubric, an authoritative ..."
6. The Elizabethan Prayer-book & Ornaments: With an Appendix of Documents by Henry Gee (1902)
"The same letter which directed the The letter of formation of the calendar called
attention chancels. to the decay of churches, and the unseemly keeping and ..."
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