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
The handsome chancel screen removed from the hall, though large for its place, is of skilled later workmanship; especially rich are the spandrils and ornament on the inner side of the screen.
From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Walford, Edwin
St Helen's keeps its old chancel screen, but it is in a mutilated condition, for the rood-beam was taken away to be cut up into bench-ends!
From Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts by Northcote, Rosalind
The chancel screen is modern with the exception of the lower portion, which has been made up of the old fifteenth-century bench ends.
From The Cornish Riviera by Haslehust, E. W.
The church contains a fine chancel screen, with twenty-eight panels of painted saints, which was removed from the church of St. Mary Major.
From Exeter by Haslehust, E. W.
