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: Ornament, Timber, Chapel, Church, Medieval
  
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