Word: chanceller
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...addition to the black, white and red mosaic, there are wall frescoes, lamps, chancel rails and a whole system of locks. Prausnitz dates the church in the 4th century. One clue: the liberal use of the cross on the floor mosaics, a practice that the church prohibited A.D. 427 on the ground that the feet of worshipers profaned the sacred symbol. A second indication is the floor plan-a long rectangle in the manner of 4th century Roman temples. Definite dating must wait upon other scholars and future excavations...
...Nicosia. Sir John Harding, a brave soldier and brilliant commander has fought two wars, led whole armies-including thousands of Cypriots who fought in British uniforms. But he dares not worship alone. A squad of British soldiers precedes him and examines the altar, the Bible, the pews and chancel for planted explosives. Harding arrives in a bulletproof sedan. Armored cars bristle outside as Sir John, Governor General of the Crown Colony of Cyprus is at his devotions...
...Speaker of the House of Commons; the representatives of 74 foreign powers, including General George C. Marshall and Russia's Jacob Malik; the Sultans of Zanzibar, Perak and Selangor; Her Majesty, the Queen of Tonga. The Dukes of Gloucester and Kent entered and took up positions in the chancel. The Queen Mother and Princess Margaret, each with her ladies in waiting, moved down the aisle and took their privileged places. Outside, and ever nearer, came the sound of horses' hooves on Parliament Square...
...Duchess Dowager of Devonshire, assisted by the Lord Great Chamberlain, unfastened the silk ribbons that held the Queen's train, and slipped over Her Majesty's arms a white muslin smock. Thus, with jewels hidden, Elizabeth crossed the chancel to her seat in King Edward's chair. The choir sang Handel's anthem Zadok the Priest, and four Knights of the Garter, gathering about their Queen, raised a cloth-of-gold canopy above her. The Dean of Westminster poured a spoonful of holy oil (containing perfumes of orange blossom, roses, cinnamon and jasmine, mixed with musk...
...honor of Pocahontas. British and American flags hung side by side in the chancel last week, and another old Virginian, Lady Astor, helped to inaugurate it as "a symbolic shrine of Anglo-American relations...