Rood screens are not unique to Britain; they can be found in churches in many parts of Europe: the German word for one is Lettner; the French jubé; and the Dutch doksaal.
The rood screen in Exeter Cathedral, Devon, England.
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Rood Screen The screen dividing the nave from the chancel, often with a cross (or rood) mounted above it.
Transept The ground plan of many churches forms the shape of a cross. The two 'arms' of the cross are the transepts.
Rood screen - A screen below the rood, set across the east end of the nave and shutting off the chancel.
Rood screen - St. Etienne Toussaint - Charles Henri
Architecture Glossary ...
Rood Screen - a screen built beneath the rood loft.
Sacristy - a separate room for storing sacred vessels.
Sanctuary - the high altar is placed. The holiest part of the church.
Rood screen/Jube: A stone or wooden screen, which separated the choir of the church where the clergy sits from the nave where the congregation sits (fig.1).
Rood screen
Screen originally surmounted by a Rood.
Romanesque
The architectural style common in Western Europe in the 11th and 12th centuries.
Rood Screen A rood screen (also known as a chancel screen) is a partition that separates the nave of a church from the chancel. It is similar to an iconostasis in an Eastern Orthodox church, except that its origin is more recent.
Rood Screen:
An ornamented piece that serves on the Altar as a separation between the Choir and the Nave. Quite often Rood Screens will contain or support a crucifix.
Rose Window: ...
Rood screen
A divider, generally made of carved wood or stone, that separates the chancel of a church or cathedral from the rest of the nave.
Romanesque ...
rood screen - a screen in a church; separates the nave from the choir or chancel
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CANOPY OF HONOUR: elaborately carved or painted panels sometimes found attached to a nave roof, above a rood screen or loft. CANT: an oblique line cutting off a corner, as created in a roof by a secondary timber connecting a collar beam to a rafter.
Some of the most beautiful examples of tracery are those on the rood screens of churches, either in stone as in the Jube of the Madeleine at Troyes, or in wood as in the rood screens of the churches in East Anglia and in Somersetshire; ...
A rood screen was placed below a representation of the Crucifixion (called a rood).Screens passageIn an older house or college, a screened-off entrance passage between great hall and service rooms.
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.
In medieval churches, often supported on a beam (rood beam) or screen (rood screen)
Examples from Buffalo architecture::
Illustration above: St. Andrew's Episcopal Church ...
Cross or crucifix placed between the chancel and nave. A rood screen separates the two parts of a church and is often painted or carved.
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A cross or crucifix placed between the chancel and nave, usually on the top of the screen which screens the chancel from the nave. This is known as a rood screen; it is often decoratively painted or carved or both.
Sanctuary.
Rood screen. - Screen built beneath the rood loft, separating the chancel and the nave.
Royal arms. - Arms of the monarch, usually painted on wood or canvas, which became compulsory in churches after the Reformation [ca. 1550].
 See also: Church, Screen, Rood, Chancel, Choir
  
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