1) Architectural element
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The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jube) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture. It is typically an ornate partition between the chancel and nave, of more or less open tracery constructed of wood, stone, or wrought iron. The rood screen would originally have been surmounted by a rood loft carrying the Great Ro...
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An ornamented piece that serves on the Altar as a separation between the Choir and the Nave. Quite often Rood Screens will contain or support a crucifix.
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a screen built beneath the rood loft.
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in Western architecture, element of a Christian church of the Middle Ages or early Renaissance that separated the choir or chancel (the area around ...
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a screen, usually separating nave and chancel, on which is the crucifix (rood)
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A screen dividing the Nave from the Chancel, topped with a Rood.
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A screen dividing the Nave from the Chancel, topped with a Rood.
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In architecture, a rood screen is a screen between the choir and the body of the church, over which the rood was placed.
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[
n] - a screen in a church
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noun a screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel
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