The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture. It is typically an ornate partition...
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A rood or rood cross, sometimes known as a triumphal cross, is a cross or crucifix, especially the large crucifix set above the entrance to the chancel...
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The Ranworth rood screen at Church of St Helen, Ranworth, Norfolk, is a wooden medieval rood screen that divides the chancel and nave, and was originally...
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Albi Cathedral (section The rood screen)
of 15th c.) The most important new decorative project was the rood screen or choir screen (jubé in French), a highly ornamental fence which surrounded...
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King's College Chapel, Cambridge (section Rood screen)
stained glass windows were completed by 1531, and its early Renaissance rood screen was erected in 1532–36. The Chapel is an active house of worship, and...
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St Melangell's Church (section Rood screen)
church holds historically valuable objects including a 15th-century rood screen depicting Melangell's legend, two 14th-century effigies, paintings, and...
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Saint-Étienne-du-Mont (section Jubé or rood screen)
Portal of the rood screen Detail of the rood screen sculpture The jubé, or rood screen (about 1530) Filagree balcony of the rood screen The most unusual...
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3 bays. The chancel is divided from the north aisle by a solid stone rood screen wall punctured by a central door and two traceries windows. The south...
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the driver of a vehicle Folding screen, a piece of decorative furniture Rainscreen, in building construction Rood screen, a partition in a church which...
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to 8 yards" (or 18 to 24 ft, "Rood", II.7). Rood (Scots) Rood screen List of obsolete units of measurement OED, "Rood" Kinne, William (1829). A short...
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In medieval churches the nave was separated from the chancel by the rood screen; these, being elaborately decorated, were notable features in European...
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at the great rood screen (or whatever barrier between the laity and the altar), where antiphons and collects would be sung. At the screen would be read...
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Iconostasis (redirect from Icon screen)
virtually all view by the congregation.[citation needed] Ambon (liturgy) Rood screen Soleas Templon Iconostasis of the Cathedral of Hajdúdorog Altarpiece...
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Limoges Cathedral (section The Rood Screen)
Romanesque architecture, particularly in the bell tower, and the Renaissance rood screen with reliefs of the labors of Hercules, built in 1534. (Portions of the...
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Hague died soon after designing the first of his additions: a marble rood screen, 9.1 metres (30 ft) wide and 11 metres (36 ft) tall. His replacement...
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in an effigy traditionally identified as the saint, and in the carved rood screen. The effigy depicts a woman wearing 14th-century clothing, with animals...
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head. The panel was formerly part of a rood screen at the Norwich Church of St John Maddermarket. The screen was commissioned by Ralph Segrym (died 1472)...
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screen enjoyed a small revival in the 19th century, after the passionate urgings of Augustus Pugin, who wrote A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts...
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Zvonimir with their subjects is engraved on one of the marble rood screens. The second rood screen is decorated with pentagram with flowers and birds inside...
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Jean Texier. When he finished this, he began constructing a new jubé or Rood screen that separated the ceremonial choir space from the nave, where the worshippers...
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rood screens were demolished at the English Reformation, although the cathedrals of Peterborough and Canterbury retained their separate rood screens into...
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St James the Less, Pockthorpe (section Rood screen)
fittings, including its medieval baptismal font, a set of 15th-century rood screen panels, and glass roundels fitted when the church was re-glazed, are...
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from the clustered village centre, has a large, ornate medieval painted rood screen such as many medieval parishes who could afford fine artisans once had...
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Rood screen and chancel ceiling at the Anglo-Catholic Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pennsylvania...
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Münster Cathedral (section Former rood screen)
(Gothic) rood screen from the 13th century, which was destroyed during the Anabaptist rule of Münster. The rood screen of 1549 was an arcade or hall rood screen...
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Folding screens. Chinoiserie Coromandel screen Hanging scroll Rood screen and triptych: panels in churches Room divider...
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six companies of troops and horses in the Abbey, and dismantled the rood screen, using it and other timber from the building to build a siege tower for...
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decorated with carved foliage of exceptional quality. The minster's rood screen is also of high quality. During the Middle Ages Southwell was part of...
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located. Beneath the chancel arch, a rood screen blocked the chancel off from the nave. Made of wood, the rood screen included a door and gaps in which the...
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work on the nave was finished by 1235, with the installation of the rood screen, which separated the choir from the nave. The next step was the building...
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