Area around the altar of a church for the clergy and choir

Usage examples of chancel.

The Bishop leapt the chancel rail and was about to seize him when Miss Airedale, loyal to the last, interposed.

It was by her brave duteousness that his mutilated body was buried in the chancel of Chelsea Church.

There, godlings scurried about the chancel, arranging vases of fireflowers around the altar.

Or was the vault under the chancel of Gateshead Church an inviting bourne?

I could about Hugo Driver, which is when I learned about Shorelands, and after a while I came to New York so I could get a job at Chancel.

I met Lincoln Chancel at Shorelands, and before I knew what was what, he hired me to work for him.

As he spoke he began the sacred choreography, briskly striding from one end of the chancel rail to the other, bent forward at the hips, half turned toward the nave.

Hollywood, I was at Screen Gems writing Circle of Fear and a segment of The Flying Nun and a little ghosting on Police Story, and William Castle had bought the rights to The Shadow, and I went to him and told him I'd write the damned screenplay for nothing, not a centavo, zip, nada, just gimme a chancel He had hired me for Circle of Fear, and he was high on my work, but he laughed and said he'd already assigned the script.

It had much to say of Morton Church: of the saddle - back tower and the strange beasts at the south door, of the priest's chamber over the chancel, of the small newel - stair of oak carved with angels by which it was reached, and the black - letter books in the chamber.

He came back to the door and knelt on the threshold and looked along the edges of that and the newel stair, then ran down and pored over the chancel floor.

She said she couldn't talk to me, her husband was up in the room over the chancel and might be down any moment.

Sir Charles and Lady Wyndham - for though Cranbury House stands in Hursley parish, it is so much nearer to Otterbourne that the inhabitants generally attend the church there, - and two huge square pews in the chancel, one lined with red baize, the other bare, were appropriated to Cranbury, and might well have been filled by the children of Sir Charles and Dame James his wife - Jacoba in her marriage register at Hursley - for they had no less than seventeen children, of whom only five died in infancy, a small proportion in those days of infant mortality.

Commandments on the chancel arch were whitewashed out, and a tablet in blue with gold lettering erected in their stead on each side of the altar.

The plan and dimensions followed those of the old church, and were ample enough, the north aisle a good deal shorter than the chancel, and all finished with gables crow-stepped in the Dutch fashion.

The chancel was, as in most of the new churches built at this time, only deep enough for the sanctuary, as surpliced choirs had not been thought possible in villages, and so many old chancels had been invaded by the laity that it was an object to keep them out.