rood screen
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The team also recovered well-preserved painted sculptures and many pieces of the medieval rood screen, which once divided congregants from clergy until it was demolished under Louis XIV.
From Science Magazine • Apr. 20, 2022
There’s another reference that says a clock was installed above the rood screen of a church.
From Scientific American • Jan. 28, 2022
Beyond the house, the road meandered upward past more villas, then dustily through a cluster of old cottages around the medieval parish church, which had a distinguished rood screen.
From The New Yorker • Oct. 21, 2019
This panel hung for many years behind the rood screen of a small church in rural Belgium, but its current whereabouts are unknown.
From The Guardian • May 18, 2018
There is, too, a massive rood screen, and a curious "palimpsest" Table of Commandments, the original sixteenth century lettering showing beneath repainted characters of the seventeenth century.
From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward
