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chancel screen
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jube
Alternative spelling of jubé.
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rood arch
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altar-screen
(Architecture) An often richly decorated partition separating the nave from the chancel in a church.
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rood loft
A gallery built above a rood screen.
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gallery
Any of the display rooms of a museum
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  • The church is cruciform and the altar stands beneath the eastern lantern arch, a fine rood screen separating off the choir, which was devoted to monastic use, while the nave was kept for the parishioners, in consequence of a dispute between the vicar and the monastery in 1499.

  • Previous to the dissolution, a rood-screen bearing a gigantic rood, the object of many pilgrimages, stood to the west of the tower.

  • The choir extended westwards for three bays beyond the tower and terminated in a stone rood-screen.

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