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
Fine woodwork is to be seen in the cradle roof, while the chancel screen was carefully modelled on one of earlier date.
From Nooks and Corners of Cornwall by Scott, C. A. Dawson
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
It contains a heavy Norman font and a small oak chancel screen.
From Somerset by Wade, G. W.
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
