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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Example Sentences

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

Photographs of three drawings by Mr. Gunning, made in 1842, are preserved in the chapter room, and show this east end, and the two sides of the organ screen, as they were before Scott’s alterations.

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

An organ screen intercepts the line of vision at the entrance to the choir.

From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 1 Great Britain and Ireland, part 1 by Halsey, Francis W. (Francis Whiting)

The distance from the inside of the west door of the cathedral to the organ screen at the entrance into the choir is 267 feet.

From A Guide to Peterborough Cathedral Comprising a brief history of the monastery from its foundation to the present time, with a descriptive account of its architectural peculiarities and recent improvements; compiled from the works of Gunton, Britton, and original & authentic documents by Phillips, George S. (George Searle)

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 Massé, H. J. L. J. (Henri Jean Louis Joseph)