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What is a chancel?

What is a chancel? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. The space around the altar in a church, often enclosed, for use by the clergy and the choir. In medieval cathedrals the chancel was usually enclosed or blocked off from the nave by an altar screen.
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Most exceptional is the stone-vaulted chancel with its stone chancel screen with three tall and narrow openings.
Back then it was known as St. Mary's, and consisted of no more than a simple rectangular nave and chancel.
The church is constructed of ashlaring walls with a square west tower, rectangular nave and lower rectangular chancel and apse.
It is built of local flint with stone dressings and comprises a chancel, nave, south aisle, porch, a north transeptal chapel and a western tower.
Externally St Peter's is interesting enough, with a low but ornate west tower, and long nave and chancel along which runs blind arcading.
The finished work, located in the apse high above the chancel, depicts Christ in the attitude of the cross before a flourishing Tree of Life.

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