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Parclose - A screen enclosing a chapel or shrine and separating it from the main body of the church so as to exclude non -worshippers.
Parekklesion - In Byzantine architecture, a chapel, either free-standing or attached.

 


parclose
Screen or railing used to enclose a chantry, tomb or chapel, in a church, and for the space thus enclosed.
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Parclose screen
A wooden screen partitioning a section of an aisle as a chapel.

A parclose screen separates a chapel from the rest of the church. A rood screen was placed below a representation of the Crucifixion (called a rood).

A partition (of stone or wood). A rood screen was at the western end of the chancel, below a rood. A 'parclose screen' separated the rest of the church from a chapel.
Scriptorium -
A place where manuscripts were copied.

See also: Church, Chapel, Screen, Ornament, Timber

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