organ screen

American  

noun

1. an ornamental screen closing off an organ chamber in a church.

2. a rood screen or the like supporting an organ.

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organ screen British  

noun

1. a wooden or stone screen that supports the organ in a cathedral or church and divides the choir from the nave

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organ screen

One centerpiece, the decorative multi-part organ screen that is in the Huntington’s collection, has been reunited with other components for the first time in more than four decades.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 1, 2024

Before 1875 a gallery filled up the south transept and two bays of the south aisle, and communicated by means of the organ screen with the similar gallery in the north transept.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Abbey Church of Tewkesbury with some Account of the Priory Church of Deerhurst Gloucestershire by H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph) Massé

The next window is that over the great organ screen dividing the ante-chapel from the choir.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

The Stalls of the dean and canons stand against the organ screen and face towards the east.

From Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Rochester A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See by G. H. (George Henry) Palmer

The next point to be observed is the great organ screen, erected during the brief ascendancy of the miserable Ann Boleyn, whose initials are carved upon it.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Edward Conybeare

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