The canons of 1604 allowed the use of either the nave or thechancel.
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These seats were usually close to thechancel, and sometimes within it.
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Dee is the first bishop known to have asked in his visitation articles if communion tables were railed in at the east end of chancels.
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In practice, this meant that not everybody faced in the same direction, though a general orientation towards the pulpit\\chancelwas certainly maintained in most churches.$!
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I think the rector is liable to repair thechancel, and the parishioners are liable to repair the nave.
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A tithe-owner may have spent a great deal of money in repairing thechancel.
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Is it only an ecclesiastical building when it refers to thechancelof the church?
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The incumbent, as such, has no liability at all for thechancel, nave, or any other part of the church with regard to repairs.
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I should be very much averse to the notion of a county council going into a church for the purpose of repairing thechancel.
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Thechancelstands upon an entirely different footing from the rest of the church.
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I strongly suspect that all that is concerned is achancel, whether of a church or of some other building.
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Whoever holds the rectorial tithe is bound to keep thechancelin repair.
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But with regard to thechancelit is quite a different thing.
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Who will repair thechancel?
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The intention was not that it should be a liability either to repair thechancelof a church or to repair thechancelof another ecclesiastical building.
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