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 nave is on the south side with north chapelry or Lady aisle, heavy Norman pillars and plain chancel screen.
From Edge Hill The Battle and Battlefield by Edwin Walford
Of the fifteen kings, from William of Normandy to Henry of Windsor, whose sculptured effigies appear upon the chancel screen in York Minster, there is scarcely one who has not worshiped in this cathedral….
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
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 Edwin Walford
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
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