Chancel is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for CHANCEL in dictionary:

VERB:
• That part of a church, reserved for the use of the clergy, where the altar, or communion table, is placed.
• All that part of a cruciform church which is beyond the line of the transept farthest from the main front.
NOUN:
• the part of a church containing the altar and seats for choir
• the part of a church near the altar, reserved for the clergy and choir, and typically separated from the nave by steps or a screen.
• part of a church containing the altar and choir
• area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir; often enclosed by a lattice or railing
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• an area around a church altar

Words related to CHANCEL

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Words that contain CHANCEL

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How to use CHANCEL in a sentence

• I borrowed the key, as I wanted to take a photograph of the chancel by daylight.
• The chancel arch is possibly the most remarkable and beautiful illustration of the Transitional that we have.
• Only the shell of the chancel remains, but the nave has been restored, and is now used as the church of the parish.
• I suppose the people who saw it passed into the chancel in dignified fashion thought it was something of ecclesiastical weight.
• Sylvia, seated several guests away from the aisle, saw little of the procession as it went up into the chancel.
• In yonder chancel sleeps a monarch, murdered by bloody relations.
• Beneath, are two ranges of windows, running quite round the chancel, and decorated with an amazing variety of mouldings.
• The others had the same sensations and temptations, and it is a wonder that Wilkins did not meet with some dreadful humiliation before he got the collection back into the chancel.
• A Saxon crypt was discovered under the chancel when that portion was restored and a trap door gives access to this chamber from the floor.
• The tower is more curious than beautiful and the quaint top story may be contemporary with the chancel, an addition of the early seventeenth century.
• On the north wall of the chancel is a tablet to Mary Nicholas with arms bearing the royal canton.
• The shattered church was there, and I noticed a large crucifix quite intact still hanging on its chancel wall.
• Then they went into the church, and as they solemnly walked up the aisle a pale-faced young curate came out of the vestry and down to the bottom of the chancel.
• The towers of Anglo-Saxon churches are generally placed at the west end, though sometimes, as at Wotten Wawen, they occur between the chancel and nave.
• The church was entirely rebuilt in 1839, and a chancel of better type added in 1897.
• The nave has been rebuilt and enlarged, but the tower and chancel should be carefully observed.
• The church was rebuilt in 1826, but the chancel was added later from designs by Sir G.
• The church has a fine oak screen in the south chancel and a stone altar with five crosses in the north aisle.
• Notice the effect of the tower in its unusual position between chancel and nave.
• The tower and part of the chancel are undoubtedly Saxon, the remainder of the church having been rebuilt in Norman and Early English times.
• In the chancel is a doorway in a curious position between two seats.
• The entrance to the chancel of Arundel Church, now the Fitz-Alan Chapel, is from the castle grounds.
• The church has a Norman arch in the chancel, much admired for its graceful proportions and details.
• The effect of the chancel, as seen behind the pictures, is very singular, and suggestive of many swelling thoughts.

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