chancel screen
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Dr. Fosdick's party paused to study the great, stone chancel screen curving from reading desk to pulpit.
From Time Magazine Archive
As she passed between the men and women to the big pew joining the chancel screen, they all touched their forelocks or dropped curtsies before resuming their seats.
From The Parish Clerk by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
"Will you kindly tell me the origin of the chancel screen?"
From Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Field, Walter
The monuments are unimportant; but the wrought-iron chancel screen, designed by Sir A. W. Blomfield, is worthy of careful scrutiny, as is also the vestry screen of carved oak.
From Hertfordshire by New, E. H. (Edmund Hort)
He was connected with some of the best cathedral folk, such as the queer carvings in the choir stalls and chancel screen, and even the gargoyles high up on the roof.
From Reginald in Russia and other sketches by Saki
