chancel

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On the north side of the chancel is a large monument to Sir Thomas Smith, died

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  1. noun The space around the altar of a church for the clergy and sometimes the choir, often enclosed by a lattice or railing.

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  • In the chancel was a row of stalls reserved for people from the château, hard stalls in old, polished wood. —  Maigret Goes Home - Georges Simenon - 13
  • Most likely he saw that the orders for putting the altars back into their right places were carried out, and very likely the chancel was then mended, but with no attention to architecture, for the head of the east window was built up anyhow with broken bits of tracery from a larger and handsomer one. —  Old Times at Otterbourne
  • In the spandril of the arch on the south side of the chancel is a marble medallion of the Duke of Wellington, presented by his son, and in the corresponding position on the north side one of the Duke of Marlborough, presented by the Earl of Cadogan. —  Westminster The Fascination of London
  • On the north side of the chancel is a fresco painting enclosed in marble, presented by the Archbishop of York on leaving the parish. —  The Kensington District The Fascination of London
  • On the north side of the chancel is a large monument to Sir Thomas Smith, died November 28, 1609. —  Hammersmith, Fulham and Putney The Fascination of London
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  1. Middle English chauncel, from Old French chancel, from Late Latin cancellus, latticework, sing. of Latin cancellī; see cancel.

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  1. from Middle English chauncel, chauncell, from Old French chancel, cancel, from Middle Latin cancellus, a chancel, Latin cancelli, plural, a grating, latticework: see cancel.
 

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