rood screen in English

noun
1
a screen, typically of richly carved wood or stone, separating the nave from the chancel of a church. Rood screens are found throughout western Europe and date chiefly from the 14th–16th centuries.
Not just any old rood screen - but probably the best rood screen in all of England.

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1. They all squatted on the paving-stone before the rood screen.

2. We walked down the dark, dingy nave under the simple rood screen into the sanctuary.

3. He leaned against the rood screen and stared up at his newly repaired roof.

4. He had built this out on the steps of the church and placed it on trestles before the rood screen.

5. In churches the rood loft is a display gallery above the rood screen, and a choir or organ loft is a gallery reserved for church singers and musicians.

6. Inside there are several curiosities - a series of three Aumbries behind the high altar, a sixteenth-century pulpit made from parts of the former rood screen and a hagioscope from north chapel to chancel