The church is of the Cistercian type, with a short chancel ( 3 ), and transepts ( 4 ) with three eastward chapels to each, divided by solid walls.

The chancel is Early English with later flying buttresses intended to the very obvious spread of the upper walls.

This general acceptance is confirmed by the numerous artworks that depict this subject, culminating in one of the most famous fresco cycles of the Renaissance, the Legend of the True Cross by Piero della Francesca, painted on the walls of the chancel of the Church of San Francesco in Arezzo between 1452 and 1466, in which he reproduces faithfully the traditional episodes of the story as recorded in The Golden Legend.

* St. Wystan's Church, Repton, Derbyshire ( crypt c. 750, chancel walls ninth century )

Pevsner assumed that the tower-transepts and the outer walls of the chancel date back to 1260, and that the towers were built in imitation of those at Exeter.

Other fragments of structures which remain include portions of the outer walls of the chancel aisles and the 14the century retroquire.

The end walls of the old church still stand, the west gable containing a bell turret and the east pierced by a chancel arch, the chancel itself having disappeared.

Only stone walls of the south and the north elevations along with the chancel with three characteristic windows have remained from the previous sanctuary.

The doorway, protected by a modern wooden roof, has an ornately carved arch ; inside, there are 81 decorative corbels on the north and south walls, and the chancel arch has 37 grotesque beakheads.

The chancel measures, with lancet windows — combined three lights in the east end and four single lights on each side, the walls being supported by buttresses.

There is a lack of symmetry to the chancel, the arches on the north and south walls do not match and half of an arch has been stopped off.

The end walls of the nave, chancel and two transepts were extended to form a rectangle with a nave of three bays with round arches on Tuscan columns with excessive entasis ; a chancel of two bays ; and north and south aisles running the full length of the nave, tower and chancel.

The 1906 quake wrecked much of the church, felled the spire, cracked the walls, and " injured beyond repair " the mosaics and Carrara marble statuary in the chancel.

The result was that when the tower swayed in the earthquake, it pushed against the walls and roofs of the nave, transepts and chancel, causing the walls to move and the roof of the nave to be forced towards the gable of the facade.

Around the lower walls of the chancel are twelve niches decorated with golden mosaic tiles.

It consists of a small nave and short chancel, with aisles to the north and south, and has boulder built walls and a slate roof.

The walls of the chancel curve forward to incorporate the pulpit on one side and the reading desk on the other.

Hagioscopes are found on one or both sides of the chancel arch ; in some cases a series of openings has been cut in the walls in an oblique line to enable a person standing in the porch ( as in Bridgwater church, Somerset ) to see the altar ; in this case and in other instances such openings were sometimes provided for an attendant, who had to ring the Sanctus bell when the Host was elevated.

There was no structural chancel, the focus of the church being a large pulpit centrally placed against one of the longer walls.

It is planted in the approximate form of a cathedral, with grass avenues for nave, chancel, transepts, chapels and cloisters and " walls " of different species of trees.

An Advent wreath in the chancel of Broadway United Methodist Church, located in New Philadelphia, Ohio, USA.

Archaeological evidence in the form of an elaborate mosaic floor similar to the one in the Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem and multiple fragments of an elaborate marble Templon ( chancel screen ) prove that an elaborate Byzantine church or monastery or other public building stood on the Temple Mount in Byzantine times, presumably the aforementioned Holy Wisdom Church.

One of the earliest and best constructed of the churches, St. Mary's or Our Lady's Church consists of a nave with a later chancel.

* St Peter and St Paul, Buckingham Church Buckingham, ( 1862 – 1878 ), additions to the original 1780 church including chancel, buttresses, porch, roof and nave alterations.

* the Saint-Jean Church, with a Renaissance chancel, tabernacle of the high altar by Giraudon.

St. Mary's Church had a bequest from Sir John, and its chancel was restored.

St. Mary's Church, Cavendish, benefited from a large bequest made by Sir John and had its chancel refurbished.

Old Amersham includes the Church of England St Mary's Church ( a Grade I listed building since December 1958 ), the exterior is Victorian but it includes 17th century glass from Lamer Manor in Hertfordshire and monuments in the chancel to 17th and 18th century notables.

In other Christian denominations, such as the Lutheran Church or Methodist Church, the stripping of the altar and other items on the chancel also occurs, as a preparation for the somber Good Friday service.

The original church is largely destroyed but in 1828 a Church of Ireland church was built into its chancel.

This may have been because of the veneration and imitation of the Great Church Hagia Sophia in Constantinople, though the columnar form of chancel barrier does predate Hagia Sophia.

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.

Godalming Parish Church has an early Saxon chancel and Norman tower.

Memorial brass plaque to Charles Alfred Stothard, Bere Ferrers Church, Cornwall, floor of NE corner of chancel

* chancel, Brown Memorial Presbyterian Church, Baltimore, Maryland, 1931

St Mary's Church, Kempley has in its chancel " the most complete set of Romanesque frescos in northern Europe ", including the Christ in Majesty painting created in about 1120.

He was buried in the family vault of the Pakingtons, in the chancel of Hampton Church.

He was buried in the chancel of the parish of St Alfege Church in Greenwich.

In 1821, St. Matthew's Church was demolished with exception of the tower and chancel and replaced at a cost of £ 20, 000 to a design by Francis Goodwin.

The Church ’ s most remarkable possession is the 15th century chancel screen with its lively lions and unspoilt contemporary paintings of the evangelists and others.

Additionally, at the enthronement of the Archbishop of Canterbury, there is a threefold enthronement, once in the throne the chancel as the diocesan bishop of Canterbury, once in the Chair of St. Augustine as the Primate of All England, and then once in the chapter-house as Titular Abbot of Canterbury.

In England, this motif usually appears in a prominent place in the church, such as the central rib of the chancel roof, or on a central rib of the nave.

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 nave and chancel of the Church of England parish church of Saint Mary Magdalene are 11th century.

The Church of England parish church of All Saints was built early in the 12th century, and its nave and chancel remain essentially Norman structures.

The Church of England parish church of All Saints has an early 14th century chancel arch.

The former Church of England parish church of Saint Peter is Norman, with a mid-12th century nave and even earlier chancel.

The chancel arch of the Church of England parish church dates from at least the latter part of the 12th century.

The nave of the Church of England parish church of Saint George was built in about 1190 in the transitional style between Norman and Early English, and the chancel is probably of the same date.

One of its churches dates from the 13th century ; before the addition of a chancel in 1830, it was only 25 feet long and 11 feet wide, and was considered the smallest church in England.

The Church of England parish church of Saint James has a 13th century chancel.

The volume on Dorset in the Buildings of England series by John Newman and Nikolaus Pevsner describe this as having " nave with bellcote, chancel and apse ... Slater's and Carpenter's typical single and twin lancets with pointed-trefoiled cusping.

The church, dedicated to the Good Shepherd, is believed to be the smallest in England, having been rebuilt using only the original chancel after a fire had destroyed the remainder of the building.

The earliest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint Mary the Virgin include the chancel, west tower and south doorway, which date from about 1300.

* Church of England: St Andrews ' Church on Church Street has a Norman chancel with an Elizabethan double-hammerbeam roof and was almost certainly built on the site of an older Saxon church.

* Bath Abbey, Somerset, England, nave and chancel ( 1860s restoration ; originally by William Vertue )

The oldest parts of the Church of England parish church of Saints Peter and Paul are the Norman font and largely Norman chancel.

Parts of the Church of England parish church of Saint James the Apostle date from the 13th century, including the north side of the chancel and the arcade of the south aisle.

The Church of England parish church of Saint Mary may originally have been 12th century, as a Norman doorway of that date survives in the chancel.

The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew consists of a chancel, nave, north aisle, north-west vestry, south porch and a west tower.

The Church of England parish church of Saint Andrew has an 11th century Saxo-Norman chancel that combines characteristically Saxon double-splayed windows with Norman flat buttresses and has reached Grade I listed status.

Dating from around 1340, the church of St Mary the Virgin is a 14th century church with a very rare feature for the East of England, a Grade I listed detached tower to the north of the church located about 70 feet from the north wall of the chancel.

King's College Chapel is the chapel to King's College of the University of Cambridge, and is one of the finest examples of late Gothic ( Perpendicular ) English architecture, while its early Renaissance rood screen separating the nave and chancel, erected in 1532-36 in a striking contrast of style, has been called by Sir Nikolaus Pevsner, " the most exquisite piece of Italian decoration surviving in England ".