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 resolved to utilize it in the construction of the chancel screen.
From Bell's Cathedrals: A Short Account of Romsey Abbey A Description of the Fabric and Notes on the History of the Convent of Ss. Mary & Ethelfleda by Rev. Thomas Perkins
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 Walter Field
The chancel screen is modern with the exception of the lower portion, which has been made up of the old fifteenth-century bench ends.
From The Cornish Riviera by E. W. Haslehust
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
