Balusters synonyms

The general construction of wooden screens is close panelling beneath, on which stands screen-work composed of slender turned balusters or regular wooden mullions, supporting tracery more or less rich with cornices, crestings, &c., and often painted in brilliant colours and gilded.

They generally have moulded rails or balusters, and rich friezes of pierced and repousse work, the whole being often thickly plated with silver.

The communion rails with turned balusters are from 17th century.

The altar rails have twisted balusters of late seventeenth-century date, and the altar table belongs to the earlier part of the same century.