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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    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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    (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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