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
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 lectern—or desk, from which the lessons are read, and the faldstool—or Litany desk, may be either just without or within the chancel screen.
From Stones of the Temple Lessons from the Fabric and Furniture of the Church by Field, Walter
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.
"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 Field, Walter
