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rood screen

noun

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


rood screen

noun

  1. 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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of rood screen1

First recorded in 1835–45
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Example Sentences

The team also recovered well-preserved painted sculptures and many pieces of the medieval rood screen, which once divided congregants from clergy until it was demolished under Louis XIV.

There’s another reference that says a clock was installed above the rood screen of a church.

Visitors wander around the cathedral, many craning their necks to take in the details of the roof or the dominating rood screen.

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Beyond the house, the road meandered upward past more villas, then dustily through a cluster of old cottages around the medieval parish church, which had a distinguished rood screen.

This panel hung for many years behind the rood screen of a small church in rural Belgium, but its current whereabouts are unknown.

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