Within the chancel is a stone in the wall about eighteen inches square, in memory of Dr.
The pew he occupied has been preserved and is still to be seen next the north wall, midway between the chancel and the vestry room.
At the right of the chancel is a remnant of old monastic charity.
At the north of the chancel is the tomb of Thomas Sutton, the founder of the Charter House Hospital, in the style of James I.
Into the chanceland the transepts were permitted to enter none but the officiating clergy and the sisters themselves, or women introduced by authority.
The pews erected in 1829 have been removed and replaced by open seats of oak, free to all, and a new oaken pulpit resting on a pillar of stone, the gift of the Bishop, placed against the chancel arch on the south side.
The Chancel is Early English, with an inserted Perpendicular east window; there is a double sedile under one trefoil arch, and a double piscina in the south wall.
The chancel has been partially rebuilt and thoroughly restored, and fitted with appropriate seats in oak, at the cost of the Ecclesiastical Commissioners.
There are no ancient monuments, but a few modern tablets on the walls record the deaths of some former residents of the parish; and a new and elegant memorial brass has been put up in the chancel to the Rev.
It is a neat building having a Nave with aisles, a Chancel and a Tower surmounted by a spire at the west end.
Large as it now is, it was once far larger, for only the chancel and side aisles remain.
Although the chancel of the parish church has been closed, permission to enter may occasionally be obtained.
The chancel was, however, not removed, but left desolate in the fields.
As a matter of fact, the church was once bigger, the chancel alone now standing.
But when the first feeling of surprise has passed, you discover that there is only a small chancel at the east end of the building, on either side of which are little dwellings.
Seats in the chancel of a church near the altar for the officiating clergy during intervals of service.
But it is worth while going in to see the curious carving in the chancel of the Assumption of the Virgin.
On the north side of the chancel is the wonderful "Jesse Window," which has been so often described that it has become one of the best known of our ecclesiastical antiquities.
In the chancel the roof is more elaborately carved, and the timbers of the north aisle retain faint blurred traces of once brilliant religious paintings.
In the chancel there have been many fine and elaborately ornamented brasses, but only a few remain in their integrity.
The chancel is said to have been rebuilt in the early part of the sixteenth century, and the chapel at the east end of the south aisle was erected by Sir Thomas More.
Sometimes the female relatives stand in the chancel with the bridal group, but this, can only happen in a very large church; and the rector must arrange this, as in high churches the marriages take place outside the chancel.
Her bridesmaids should also precede her, and await her in the chancel of the church.
The floor for one-third of its extent on St. Mary's side is torn up to thechancel rail in one piece by the water and raised toward the wall.
One-half the chancel rail is gone, the mud is eighteen inches deep on the floor, St. Joseph's altar is displaced and the statue gone.
The chancelis filled with coffins, strips of muslin, boards, and all undertaking accessories.
Adjoining the chancel is a pastor's study; but for an indefinite time their prime instructor has ordained that the only pastor shall be the Bible, with her book, called "Science and Health with Key to the Scriptures.
On the morrow, by the chancel of the cathedral, the people of Antwerp found them both.
Sure no artist ever had a greater gravestone than that pure marble sanctuary gives to him in the heart of his birthplace in the chancel of St. Jacques.
The church has latterly been restored, and the monument in its chancel to the veritable Thomas Marsh of the legend again made whole.
More amusing, perhaps, is the colony of white owls which haunt the chapel, and from their perch on the beams above the chanceldeposit upon the altar unmistakable evidence of their visits.
High up over the chancel they could see the Rector and the shiny-pated sacristan leaning from the windows of the bell-ringer's chamber and scratching with wands at some blind arches where bats might most improbably lurk.
Only her father's mellow voice spoke from the chancel of earth, and even he in his violet chasuble took his place among the saints, and when she went up to the altar Heaven was once again very near to her.
With never so holy a calm had she knelt in the jeweled shadows of that chancel or retired from the altar to find her pew imparadised.
There is no memorial to mark the site of his interment in the church; but there is a monument in the chancel to Mrs. Pepys, and Mr. Pepys is interred in a vault of his own making, by the side of his wife and brother.
He died in 1686, and his tomb, with his own inscription, may be seen in the chancel of Shustoke Church.
The rooks, arraying themselves in sombre semicircle along some hollow chancel arch, cawed reminiscent vespers.
The floor Of nave and aisle, in unpretending guise, Was occupied by oaken benches ranged In seemly rows; the chancel only showed Some vain distinctions, marks of earthly state, By immemorial privilege allowed.
The chancel walls were hidden by wind-swayed greens from which shone out, here and there, clustering harebells, cottage roses, and the golden glint of the sunflower.
The bells rang out blithe welcome as the procession neared the steepled Church of St. Mary, where a committee of ladies and gentlemen received the offerings and disposed them, according to their merit, in chancel or aisles.
The stepped gable at the chancel end of the church is an unusual feature in English architecture.
In making alterations to the chancel in 1852 the piscina, and a portion of the sedilia, a drawing of which is given in The Builder, vol.
Imagine, then, the feelings of the antiquary, who, upon approaching the chancel where most of these brasses lie, finds that it is flooded with water!
The roof has gradually fallen to decay, and the Earl of Darnley, whose property the chancel is, has refused to repair it.
George at Salonika, that has a circular nave but an oblong chancel and apse, whilst the 6th century tomb of Theodoric is typical of the use of a similar plan in sepulchral monuments.
There were no aisles or transepts in early Anglo-Saxon buildings, but the chancel was divided from the nave by an arch sometimes with and sometimes without carving.
The great gilt cross suspended from the roof over the chancel steps glimmered faintly in the lowered lights.
It had been much lighter when Tristram, unlocking the door, had come in over the planks laid along the aisle for a causeway in time of flood, and, passing the disproportionate pulpit, had entered the chancel and knelt down at the altar rails.
Her gaze wandered on and up to the huge Royal arms that rested on the beam over the chancel arch, over the "When the wicked man turneth away from his wickedness.
Opposite the entrance to the choir, where once overhead had hung the great Rood, the four stood and looked in, through a gap which the masons were mending in the high wall that had bricked off the chancel from the nave.
The chancel was as bare as a barn; beneath the whitewash, high over the place where the old canopy had hung, pale colours still glimmered through where, twelve years ago, Christ had sat crowning His Mother.
A gentleman going to see a ritualistic church in London was walking into the chancel when an official stepped forward and said, "You mustn't go in there.
When Mr. Stracey Clitherow went to his first curacy at Skeyton, Norfolk, in 1845, he found the clerk sweeping the whole chancel clear of snow which had fallen through the roof.
He was succeeded in 1785 by Mr. Richard Pitt, the son of a former mayor, and he and his wife and sixteen children were interred in the north chancel aisle, where a mural monument records their memories.
As she passed between the men and women to the big pew joining the chancel screen, they all touched their forelocks or dropped curtsies before resuming their seats.
It was a handsome Gothic church, the chancel being cut off from the nave by a solid partition covered with verses and strange paintings, among which Moses and Aaron show in peculiar uncouthness.
At Soberton, Hants, there is an old vault near the chancel door.
