rood screenn.
/ˈruːd skriːn/, U.S. /ˈrud ˌskrin/ A substantial screen, typically of elaborately carved wood or stone and surmounted by a rood or rood loft, separating the nave of a church from the chancel. Cf. chancel-screen at chancel n. Compounds, reredos n. 5b, screen n.1 6b.Rood screens are found throughout western Europe, and date mainly from the 14th to 16th centuries. In Britain many were destroyed during the Reformation.
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1817 J. Britton Hist. Antiq. Cathedral Church of Winchester iii. 97 The stalls and wainscotting, as well as the rood-screen of this chapel, are highly charged with rich carving.
1843 Civil Engineer & Architect's Jrnl. 6 256/1 The inclosure of the altar by a screen or railing, answering to the rood-screen.
1861 Archæologia Æliana New Ser. 5 xvii. 157 The seats..are the residue of those which..occupied their appropriate place along the east front of the rood-screen.
1862 Internat. Exhib.: Illustr. Catal. Industr. Dept. II. xxxi. §5983 A pair of rood-screen gates in hammered iron and brass.
1870 F. R. Wilson Archit. Surv. Churches Lindisfarne 61 A carved oak rood-screen has been recently placed at the chancel arch.
1935 D. L. Sayers Gaudy Night xiv. 291 Harriet sat dreamily beside her, with eyes fixed on the softly-tinted saints in the rood-screen.
1978 W. F. Buckley Stained Glass 229 The monks, seated in the choir stalls beyond the rood screen.
2000 Church Times 1 Dec. 15/4 After the Second World War, Comper concentrated mainly on church furnishings. Some of the most significant were a rood screen and majestas for Wakefield Cathedral.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, November 2010; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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