chancel

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

Alas for S E Winbolt, the 21st Century holidaymaker appears to be looking for something a little more thrilling than chancels and bench ends, however exquisitely carved.

From BBC • Aug. 3, 2018

It featured before-&-after pictures of Congregational chancels that have been remodeled to put less emphasis on organ, organist and pulpit, make the communion table and cross the focal point.

From Time Magazine Archive

There are famous examples of this at Iffley, near Oxford, and Studland in Dorset, where the chancels are vaulted.

From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)

Cancellæ are lattice-work, by which the chancels being formerly parted from the body of the church they took their names from thence.

From Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Field, Walter

One very important consequence of the addition of aisles and chantry chapels to chancels, at any rate on a large scale, is seen where they are applied to plans originally cruciform.

From The Ground Plan of the English Parish Church by Thompson, A. Hamilton (Alexander Hamilton)