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
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
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
A stone chancel screen and a Norman font are also preserved.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Slice 7 "Bible" to "Bisectrix" by Various
"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
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