rood screen

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noun

a screen, often of elaborate design and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church.

Nearby words

roo bars, rood, rood arch, rood beam, rood loft, rood screen, rood spire, roodepoort, roodepoort-maraisburg, roof, roof garden

Origin of rood screen

First recorded in 1835–45

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Examples from the Web for rood screen

The rood-screen is partly modern, but contains some old work.
Somerset|G.W. Wade and J.H. Wade
From this point examine the exquisite Renaissance tracery of the rood-screen and staircases.
Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3|Various
Beyond the rood-screen in the chancel the candles on the altar flickered in yellow flames beneath a slight draught.
Phases of an Inferior Planet|Ellen Glasgow
Parts of the rood-screen remain, and on the panels are painted saints and doctors of the Church, and a king and queen.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts|Rosalind Northcote

The rood-screen, lectern and pulpit are of carved oak, all comparatively new.
Hertfordshire|Herbert W Tompkins

British Dictionary definitions for rood screen

rood screen

noun

a partition of stone or wood, often richly carved and decorated, that separates the chancel from the main part of a church: it is surmounted by a crucifix (rood), and was an important feature of medieval churches, though in England many rood screens were destroyed at the Reformation

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