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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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screen facade
A facade which is so highly decorated with sculpture or other decorative elements that it acts as a screen placed in front of the facade. It may seem to hide the face of the building from view. Compare with narthex, westwork.
Screen passage - The space at the service end of a medieval hall between the screen and the buttery, kitchen and pantry entrance.
Screened aggregate
Sand, crushed rock and gravel that has been separated into various sizes by screening.
SCREEN A partition of stone or wood that separates without completely cutting off one part of a church from another part.
SEDILLA In a church, a recessed seat, usually provided for the clergy or servers assisting at the celebrations ...
Screen wall
a nonsupporting wall, often pierced by windows.
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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.
Fire screen - Any screen set in front of a fireplace to prevent flying sparks or embers from entering the room
Illustration: Cheval screen - Stella Lowry House
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Rood Screen
A screen built beneath the rood loft.
Sacristy
A separate room for storing sacred vessels.
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.
choir screen - decorated screen of wood or stone separating the choir from the rest of the cathedral.
cinquefoil - in tracery, having five pendants in a circular ring; usually applied to windows and panels. See also tracery.
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.
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Screen or railing used to enclose a chantry, tomb or chapel, in a church, and for the space thus enclosed.
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Screens: wooden partition at the kitchen end of a hall, protecting a passage leading to the buttery, pantry, and kitchen ...
Screen passage
service passage screened off at the service end of a hall
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Screen wall: A curtain wall or schildmauer.
Semibastion: A half bastion, or half of a bastion, obtained by dividing the bastion in two at the salient angle. See bastion, demibastion.
The screen door obscures a beautiful panel door, but the portico is still intact. The portico is made in the austere Doric order.
Rood Screen : An ornamented piece which serves on the Altar as a separation between the Choir and the Nave. Quite often Rood Screens will contain or support a crucifix.
ROOM SCREENS
Objects used to create an obstruction in a room to either divide into smaller areas or block off something unpleasant to the eye.
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Light Screen by Frank Lloyd Wright
Taliesin Line Textile by Frank Lloyd Wright
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Wall or screen behind the altar, usually ornamented with painting or carving.
Reticulated
Net-work tracery.
Maqsura
Screen which encloses the area of the mihrab and minbar in early mosques.
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Bird Screen - A grille of wire netting to stop birds entering fresh air inlets, exhaust outlets and other ventilation openings
Bit - An interchangeable working tool that fits into the chunk of a drill, a router or a carpenter's brace.
The rood screen below often had a walkway along the top, reached by a rood stair in the side wall.Rope mouldingA moulding like twisted strands of a rope; also called cable moulding.
An architectural screen or wall above and behind an altar, usually containing painting, sculpture, carving or other decorations.
Other parts of a church: ambulatory, apse, crossing, east end, nave, transept, west end Choir screen: A screen, made of wood or stone, usually decorated with painting orsculpture, which separates the choir from the rest of the church.
the term given in architecture (French equivalents are reseau, remplissage) to the intersecting ribwork in the upper part of a Gothic window; applied also to the interlaced work of a vault, or on walls, in panels and in tabernacle work or screens.
In height, as related to breadth, the earlier and more reserved French relations were never exceeded, while they were often discounted; until Tudor times the elimination of the wall in favour of skeleton construction combined with glass screens, ...
The chancel is the eastern portion of a church, reserved for the clergy and the choir, and often separated from the main body of the church by a screen or by steps.
In medieval times the body of the church (the nave) was divided from the chancel by a screen.
palisade : A timber defensive screen or fence.
Palladian window : A Palladian window is a large window which is divided into three parts. The center section is larger than the two side sections, and is usually arched.
Interior view of choir screen
Interior view of crossing
Interior view of nave from west
Interior view #1 of north choir tribune
Interior view #2 of north choir tribune
Interior view #1 of north nave tribune
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Hanging from the back wall between the reliquary of St Benedict and the Screen of Charlemagne is an object believed to be the cup of Solomon, while the bowl of the cup just to the left of the crown of Charlemagne has been attributed to the Ptolemies, ...
Ante-choir, the term given to the space enclosed in a church between the outer gate or railing of the rood screen and the door of the screen; sometimes there is only one rail, gate or door, ...
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.
rerados The decorative wall or screen behind the altar.
retable In a church, a decorative wall treatment or screen behind the altar; also called a reredos.
reticulated Patterned, often in a net-like design.
A highly decorative top border on a screen, wall or roof, often constructed of metal.
Cupola
A small structure projecting above a roof that provides ventilation or is used as a lookout. A defining feature of Italianate-style homes.
(Pronunciation: "BYOH-boo") Literally "wind barrier," byobu are folding screens constructed of wood and paper. While they can be used to block the wind outdoors, they are commonly used to divide interior spaces and to provide privacy.
Shutters-a hinged cover or screen for a window, usually fitted with louvers.
Double Hung-a window having top and bottom sashes, each capable of movement up and down.
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grilles:
a metal grating used as a screen, barrier or decorative element as in a window or gateway
hipped:
the external angle formed by the meeting of two adjacent, sloping sides of a roof ...
RETABLE or REREDOS The screen or decorative wall treatment behind a church's altar.
REVEAL The inside surface of a doorway or window opening, usually the thickness of a wall.
Stucco A mixture of cement, sand, and water spread over metal screening or chicken wire on wooden walls covered with tar paper.
Stud A vertical wood support in a frame wall.
Surround(s) The molding which outlines an object or opening.
Stucco - A mixture of cement, sand, lime and water spread over metal screening or chicken wire or wooden lath on wooden walls to form the exterior covering of and exterior wall.
Stud - A vertical wood support in a frame wall.
Tracery
Ornament of ribs, bars, etc., in panels or screens, as in the upper part of a Gothic window.
Transept
A structure that forms the arms of a cross-shaped church.
lattice - openwork produced by interlacing of wood laths or other thin strips, used as screening, especially under a porch
leaded glass - small panes of glass held in place with lead strips; glass may be clear or colored (stained) ...
Breezeblock - Concrete block perforated in a decorative pattern; often used as screen wall in the 1950s and 1960s.
Breezeway - Open covered way, linking two parts of a building: usually in the 1950s to 1970s.
Treillage
- the architectural application and use of trellis work to create arbours, columns, screens, pergolas and domes to act as supports for vines and climbing shrubs and plants. Widely used in formal, Renaissance gardens.
retable (retablo): painted or carved screen behind an altar.
retrochoir: space to the east of the choir and high altar.
Lattice -- An openwork grill of interlacing wood strips used as screening.
Lintel -- A horizontal beam or stone bridging an opening.
Triforium - The middle story, between the aisles and the clerestory, designed as a passage that is screened from the nave with an arcade of columns.
Trumeau - A pillar in the center of a Gothic portal.
in panels or screens, as in the upper part of a Gothic window. transept A structure that forms the arms of a T - or cross-shaped church.
Stile - The upright or vertical outside pieces of a sash, door, window, or screen.
Stop - A moulding used to hold, position, or separate window parts.
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Is a structure attached to a building, forming a covered entrance to a vestibule or doorway. It is external to the walls of the main building proper, but may be enclosed by screen, latticework, broad windows, ...
The term is generally used to describe any home constructed of timber with an iron roof, but technically it refers to homes built in the 1920 -1940 period with a gable roof over the covered, projecting, and often screened in, entry porch.
The earliest monument in the flamboyant style, the large screen (1388) with traceried gables that surmounts the triple fireplace in the ancient Palais des Comtes at Poitiers, ...
the prairie style made subtle use of Japanese architecture, specifically that culture's use of horizontal space, flowing interior spaces, hipped roofs with broad eaves, and long bands of windows that apparently invoke the idea of Japanese screens ...
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