The canons of 1604 allowed the use of either the nave or the chancel.
These seats were usually close to the chancel, and sometimes within it.
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.
In practice, this meant that not everybody faced in the same direction, though a general orientation towards the pulpit\chancel was certainly maintained in most churches.$!
I think the rector is liable to repair the chancel, and the parishioners are liable to repair the nave.
A tithe-owner may have spent a great deal of money in repairing the chancel.
Is it only an ecclesiastical building when it refers to the chancel of the church?
The incumbent, as such, has no liability at all for the chancel, nave, or any other part of the church with regard to repairs.
