altar screen

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“I did the sanctuary of the St. Brendan Church in Shallotte with beautiful millwork,” said Setterfield, who also designed a 16-by-14-foot altar screen.

From Washington Times • Mar. 21, 2015

Here we saw also an ancient marble chair, a marble altar screen, and a pavement in the ribbon mosaic, of which arch�ologues have so much to say.

From From the Oak to the Olive A Plain record of a Pleasant Journey by Howe, Julia Ward

The reredos must not be confused with the great altar screen: it was quite small, and was immediately at the back of the altar itself.

From Bell's Cathedrals: Southwark Cathedral Formerly the Collegiate Church of St. Saviour, Otherwise St. Mary Overie. A Short History and Description of the Fabric, with Some Account of the College and the See by Worley, George

In 1825 Cottingham removed a huge altar screen thence, and opened and renewed the lower range of windows, of which the central had been quite, and the other two partly, blocked with brickwork.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by Palmer, G. H. (George Henry)

Behind the altar screen was an invisible choir.

From The Empire of the East by Montgomery, H. B. (Helen Barrett)