Pulpitum
A stone screen dividing the nave and choir of a great church. The upper section was used as a pulpit for preaching, for a choir, and sometimes for an organ.
From the Latin pulpitum meaning scaffold, platform or stage from which the priest would deliver the sermon
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Three-decker: with reading desk below and clerk's desk below that. Two-decker: as above, minus the clerks' desk.PulpitumStone screen in a major church dividing choir from nave.Pulvinated ...
 See also: Church, Gothic, Nave, Choir, Pulpit
  
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