Chancel vs Cancellus - What's the difference?
chancel | cancellus |
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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, chapter=20 (architecture) A barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.
(anatomy) One of the interlacing osseous plates constituting the elastic porous tissue of certain parts of the bones, especially in their articular extremities.
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As nouns the difference between chancel and cancellus
is that chancel is 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 while cancellus is (architecture) a barrier, balustrade or railing, or screen, dividing the main body of a church from the chancel.chancel
English
(wikipedia chancel)Alternative forms
* (l) (archaic)Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=Hester Earle and Violet Wayne were moving about the aisle with bundles of wheat-ears and streamers of ivy, for the harvest thanksgiving was shortly to be celebrated, while the vicar stood waiting for their directions on the chancel steps with a great handful of crimson gladioli.}}