Chancel vs Chevet - What's the difference?
chancel | chevet |
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.
* {{quote-book, year=1907, author=
, title=The Dust of Conflict
, chapter=20 (architecture) The extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.
(Webster 1913)
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As nouns the difference between chancel and chevet
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 chevet is (architecture) the extreme end of the chancel or choir; properly the round or polygonal part.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.}}
