Word: chanceller
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...Trustees of New York's great cathedral met in the Synod House and made plans for the completion of the vast sanctuary. The project was started over 50 years ago by Bishop Horatio Potter. The cornerstone was laid in 1892. During the ensuing decade and a half the chancel and seven chapels were dedicated. In 1911-14 the foundations of the tremendous nave were laid, reminding one of the appeal of the Roman Catholic Cardinal to the mediaeval churchmen of Seville: " Let us lay here the foundations of such a cathedral that men will say we were mad ever...
Rood Screens. A reminder of pre-Reformation days was discovered in rebuilding Noyon Cathedral. The shell scarred floors were removed recently, revealing the foundations of an ancient jubé, or rood screen. In olden days the jubé was a very heavy wall separating the chancel from the choir and nave, and from a tribune on top of this wall a cleric read the Gospel and Epistle. The rood screens of today serve to ornament the church rather than to separate the clergy from the laity...
...English 29 I dropped into Appleton Chapel the other morning. I had almost forgotten that this gray, rigidly silent building had an interior. It has. And the atmosphere there is rather beautiful; dreamily quiet and mellow. Seasoned browns and dusty crimsons meet the eye except high in the chancel where a circular, stained glass window reveals sea greens and yellows and scarlets. The seasoned browns and dusty crimsons are, perhaps, symbolic of the past; the greens and yellows and scarlets, of the future. Here they meet in mutual...
...chancel door opened and a man in black cassock entered and gravely sat down. He raised his eyes--serious eyes in a face deepened through experience and thought. It was Bishop Brent whose name is associated with man work in the Philippines. The empty pews appeared still emptier...
...chancel was deep and dark...