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 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.
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 Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)
As she passed between the men and women to the big pew joining the chancel screen, they all touched their forelocks or dropped curtsies before resuming their seats.
From The Parish Clerk by Ditchfield, P. H. (Peter Hampson)
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
