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<html> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <meta name="Template" content="C:\PROGRAM FILES\MICROSOFT OFFICE\OFFICE\html.dot"> <meta name="GENERATOR" content="Microsoft FrontPage Express 2.0"> <title>znave</title> </head> <body bgcolor="#FFFFCC" link="#0000FF" vlink="#800080"> <p><a href="http://www.suffolkchurches.co.uk/zglossindex.htm"><strong><img src="zgloss.gif" border="0" width="190" height="53"></strong></a></p> <p><strong>Nave.</strong> The western, and largest, part of a church, and traditionally the part that belonged to the people. The word comes from the Latin <em>navus</em>, meaning a boat. Some are long and thin, as at <a href="Badingham.htm">Badingham</a>; others square, as at <a href="eyke.htm">Eyke</a> and <a href="Orford.htm">Orford</a>. In a medieval church, the people of the parish were responsible for the upkeep of the nave, and the parish priest for the upkeep of the <a href="zchancel.htm">chancel</a>. They used the nave for private devotions, and to contain their <a href="zchantry.htm">guild</a> and <a href="zchantry.htm">chantry altars</a>. Today, it is where the poeple sit for the congregational worship of the Church of England. A nave may be flanked by one or two <a href="zaisle.htm">aisles</a>, separated from it by <a href="zarcade.htm">arcades</a>.</p> </body> </html>