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
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
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 Rosalind Northcote
"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 Walter Field
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 E. H. (Edmund Hort) New
