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Rood screen   /rud skrin/   Listen
Rood screen

noun
1.
A screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel.






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"Rood screen" Quotes from Famous Books



... being of a later period. The bell turret is situated at the south-east corner of the building, which, as a whole, gives a singular impression, due to the fact that it is nearly as broad as it is long. St. John's Church is the most interesting in the city, containing as it does a fine rood screen, with the rood-loft stairs still existing in a turret of fifteenth-century date. Other features of interest are the fourteenth-century Decorated screens that enclose the chancel on each side, and an arched recess at the east end of the north ...
— Winchester • Sidney Heath



Words linked to "Rood screen" :   church building, screen, church



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