" This was variously interpreted over the years to mean the north side of the front of a fixed altar, the north end of a fixed altar ( i. e., facing south ), the north side of a free-standing altar ( presumably facing those intending to receive the Elements who would be sitting in the quire stalls opposite ), or at the north end of a free-standing altar placed lengthwise in the chancel, facing a congregation seated in the nave.

It stretches all the way across the church, and is made up of three separate screens: a rood screen across the chancel arch and parclose screens across the north and south chancel aisles.

The effigy in a niche on the north side of the chancel is either that of himself ( but carved 35 years or more after his death ), or of one of his successors ; dating from around 1300, it shows a king dressed in a long robe and mantle of a kind that suggests he may have been aping an English regal costume of the period, an idea supported by the fact that he carries a sceptre with fleur-de-lis head in his right hand.

The central portion of the church, the chancel and the nave, was built in the 1200s, the north aisle in the 1400s ( as was the tower ), and the south aisle in the 1500s, along with the lychgate and the south porch.

He was buried in Cranford church, where a mural tablet was afterwards set up on the north side of the chancel, with an epitaph which contains a conceit worthy of his own pen, to the effect that while he was endeavouring ( viz, in.

The first phase, comprising the chancel, north chapel, transept and the lower stage of a projected bell tower was completed by 1907, and the church gained its own parish in 1907.

The oldest parts of the Anglican parish church of St Lawrence include the chancel, which was built in the 12th century and still has three Norman windows in its north wall.

The shafted south-east angle of the 12th century nave is still visible outside, while the chancel has 12th century windows to the north and south.

A painted stone effigy of John Fortescue, wearing his scarlet robes of office with collar of ermine, exists within Ebrington Church, against the north wall of the chancel within the communion rails.

St Mary Redcliffe is cruciform in plan, with a chapel extending to the east of the chancel, and a large tower placed asymmetrically to the north of the west front.

In 1904 the chancel was rebuilt in neo-gothic style on the old foundations east of the crossing by Harold Brakspear, followed by the north transept in 1930.

The architect had drawn up plans to restore the south transept and central tower too, but sadly these were never realised, leaving the south transept as a ruin sealed off by the 1877 ' temporary ' brick wall and leaving the church in an odd truncated state today ( comprising half the nave, the chancel, north transept and base of the crossing ).

The chancel organ, in the north ambulatory, was made by the St. Louis, Missouri, firm of George Kilgen & Son, and installed in 1928 ; it has 3, 920 pipes.

On the north side of the chancel are two stained-glass windows, erected in 1918 to the memory of Henry Spilman who was killed in the First World War.

The chancel and nave were remodelled early in the 13th century and the north aisle was added later in the 13th century.

Earliest surviving material includes parts of the nave north wall including parts of an originally external zigzag string course, the north and south transepts and the external clasping buttresses of the chancel.

It is built of flint and has a chancel, nave with two aisles, north transept and a square tower at the west end.

The chancel was rebuilt about 1290 and the two-light window in the north wall is of that date ( much restored ) with a modern quatrefoil above.

The nave is of five bays, and the chancel, unusually long in proportion, is of six, with vestry chapels to north and south.

The north arcade and the windows in both the north and south aisles were probably added early in the 14th century, about the same time as the Decorated Gothic chapel was added to the chancel.

Most Gothic churches, unless they are entitled chapels, are of the Latin cross ( or " cruciform ") plan, with a long nave making the body of the church, a transverse arm called the transept and, beyond it, an extension which may be called the choir, chancel or presbytery.

The cruciform abbey was the largest built in England at that time, it had a chancel of four bays, a transept containing seven apses, and a nave of ten bays — fifteen bays long overall.

The second altar is in the crossing where the transept intersect the nave and the chancel.

Washington National Cathedral consists of a long, narrow rectangular mass formed by a nine-bay nave with wide side aisles and a five-bay chancel, intersected by a six bay transept.

It has a cruciform plan with an aisled nave ; two chapels in each transept and a square ended aisled chancel.

In the 1880s further reconstruction and rebuilding removed the galleries, moved the organ to the North transept to clear the chancel, and the pews were changed to the current oak pews.

Rothbury's Anglican parish church building-All Saints ' Church-dates from circa 1850, largely replacing but in parts incorporating the fabric of a former Saxon edifice, including the chancel, the east wall of the south transept and the chancel arch.

The chancel and south transept are 13th century, the Decorated Gothic tower forms the north transept and is mid-14th century.

The tower and chancel date from the early 13th century with the south transept ( now part of the south aisle ) added later in the century.

The present church has a chancel and nave, a south aisle and a north transept.

In the 14th century the chancel was rebuilt and a south transept was added to the nave.

The transept of a church separates the nave from the sanctuary, whether apse, choir, chevet, presbytery or chancel.

To the north side of the church, in the corner of the transept and chancel, stands a severely plain campanile of square plan, with a single arched opening in each face.

The old church consisted of a chancel and nave with south transept, south porch, and west timber bell turret.

alt = Very wide angle which shows all the major internal spaces of the church, the nave, the dome supported on large arches, a transept to either side and the chancel central to the image, which shows the way the gold mosaics gleam in contrast to the dark shadows.

These windows are: " Christ in the Temple " in the east transept, based upon a painting by William Holman Hunt ; " The Annunciation " in the east nave, inspired by a work by Frederic Shields ; " The Nativity " in the chancel, based upon a painting by Edward Fellowes-Prynne ; and " The Good Shepherd " in the west transept, inspired by a painting by Sibyl C. Parker, the only female artist represented in the artwork of the church.

English law retains a number of forms of property which are largely unknown in other common law jurisdictions such as the advowson, chancel repair liability and lordships of the manor.

On the gable ends of the nave and chancel are stone cross finials.

Architecturally, there are two types of altars: those that are attached to the eastern wall of the chancel, and those that are free-standing and can be walked around, for instance when incensing the altar.

When altars are placed away from the wall of the chancel allowing a westward orientation, only two candles are placed on either end of it, since six would obscure the liturgical action, undermining the intent of a westward orientation ( i. e., that it be visible to the congregation ).

The chancel arch and east window were finely decorated, through many of the stones are now missing.

The 14th century chancel probably replaced an apse ; the windows are of 14th century design apart from the east window which holds Victorian stained glass.

In the two world wars, a total of 171 members of Hertford College died ( those of World War I are commemorated by a memorial on the south wall of the chancel in the Chapel, while those of World War II are remembered in a memorial in the portico, to the right of the Chapel door ).

A college of secular canons was founded here by King Athelstan, in 933, and there are two medieval paintings of the King and his mother in the chancel.

It has the world's largest fan-vault, and the chapel's stained-glass windows and wooden chancel screen are considered some of the finest from their era.

Altar rails are a set of railings, sometimes ornate and frequently of marble or wood, delimiting the chancel in a church, the part of the sanctuary that contains the altar.

The chancel and transepts are of identical polygonal plan, separated by two smaller polygonal chapels.

These are worked in tempera painted on dry lime mortar, unlike those in the chancel which are true frescoes.

Kellys wrote of the church and its history: The church of St. James is a building of stone, in the Decorated style, erected in 1845-6 from designs by Mr. G. G. Place, of Nottingham, and consisting of chancel, nave, aisles and a tower, as yet unfinished: it has a very elaborately carved Perpendicular font, and the east window and some others are stained ... the destruction of the earlier church in 1643 services were afterwards held in the Chapel of St. Mary, a small building in the middle of the village, which was taken down in 1793, and a church erected on the same site: the present edifice will seat 400 persons.

There are 13th century wall paintings of saints inside that were discovered in 1907, however they are incomplete due to a major rebuild of the chancel in 1859.

Below the chancel are the crypt, shrine of the saint.

Dating from the 15th century are the sanctuary and chancel.