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Webster 1913 Edition
Chancel
Chan′cel
,Noun.
[OF. ]
chancel
, F. chanceau
, cancel
, fr. L. cancelli
lattices, crossbars. (The chancel
was formerly inclosed with lattices or crossbars) See Cancel
, Verb.
T.
(Arch.)
(a)
That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
Hence, in modern use; (b)
All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.
Chancel aisle
(Arch.)
, the aisle which passes on either side of or around the chancel.
– Chancel arch
(Arch.)
, the arch which spans the main opening, leading to the chancel.
– Chancel casement
, the principal window in a chancel.
Tennyson
. – Chancel table
, the communion table.
Webster 1828 Edition
Chancel
CHANCEL
,Noun.
Definition 2024
chancel
chancel
English
Alternative forms
- chauncel (archaic)
Noun
chancel (plural chancels)
- The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 20, in The Dust of Conflict:
- Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.
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Synonyms
Translations
space around the altar in a church
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