Preaching friars made the chancels ring with tirades against them, and openly advocated their utter extermination.
This roused his ire not a little, and he made the chancels of Trent ring with savage tirades against the Jews.
Before the Reformation the chancels were separated from the nave or body of the churches by screens or partitions.
At the Reformation, and for some time after, this distinction was regarded by the dominant Puritan party as a mark of sacerdotalism, and services were commonly said in other parts of the church, the chancels being closed and disused.
By the rubric of the English Prayer Book "the chancels shall remain as they have done in times past," i.
In Sussex, where Caen stone was largely used, and we should expect foreign influence to be noticeable, the proportion of apsidal chancels is small.
However, short and approximately square chancels were by no means invariable; and, before the middle of the twelfth century, oblong chancels of considerable length in proportion to their width were being built.
But we must also remember that, when chancels were lengthened and rebuilt, the work was done while the old chancels were still standing.
There are famous examples of this at Iffley, near Oxford, and Studland in Dorset, where the chancels are vaulted.
This may be seen very clearly at Iffley, near Oxford, and Avening in Gloucestershire, where vaultedchancels of the twelfth century were lengthened in the thirteenth century by an eastern bay.
The addition of aisles to chancels was an even more gradual process than the addition of aisles to naves; and, as a rule, the aisles were at first mere chapels.
The introduction of surpliced choirs into chancels in modern days was an innovation at first deeply resented, and seems to have been usually made in ignorance of the existence of mediaeval precedent.
How early parochial chancelshad stalls is difficult to say.
In many cases probably the seats were but benches or settles; and the naked, desolate {100} look of many spacious chancels is no doubt due to the removal of these seats.
Littlebourne; while over England one is struck with the very large number of lofty and spacious chancels of the fourteenth century; e.
But in later days there is definite evidence as to the practice of putting stalls in the chancels of parish churches.
If we proceed further north, we shall find the same system of enclosure of choirs and chancels by screens.
But the screens themselves do not appear to have suffered, and indeed, in accordance with the decree that the chancels were to remain as in time past, the screens were absolutely necessary.
This arrangement is not of any importance in country parishes where the number of communicants is necessarily limited, and where the elongated chancels may be retained, but in great towns it is almost indispensable.
In the east wall of Early English chancels three lancet windows, thus arranged, are frequently displayed.
In many places the very walls of the churches are thrown down; very few chancels covered; windows or doors ruined or spoiled.
We find Archbishop Secker expressing his regret, not without cause, that chancels were not, as a rule, kept in much better order than other parts of the building.
Cancellae are lattice-work, by which the chancelsbeing formerly parted from the body of the church they took their names from thence.
In some chancels the idea of the keel of a ship is fully carried out, the walls widening as they ascend.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "chancels" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
