A choir screen; = pulpitum, n.

Church Architecture. A partition, typically of elaborately carved wood or stone, that divides one part of a church from another or separates a…

Church Architecture. A stone screen in a church separating the choir from the nave, frequently surmounted by a loft housing the organ.

Architecture. A screen, railing, wall, etc., that serves as a partition.

Bars of latticework; spec. the latticed screen between the choir and body of the church; hence the chancel, n. (modern French cancel) so railed…

(a) (in the Eastern Orthodox Church) the screen which separates the sanctuary from the main body of the church, typically richly decorated with…

Christian Church. = rood screen, n. Now rare.

A rood-loft or screen and gallery dividing the choir from the nave.

The curtain at the chancel-screen, veiling the altar from the congregation, in the Greek Church.

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…

= iconostasis, n.

The screen which separates the sanctuary or ‘bema’ from the main body of the church, and on which the icons or sacred pictures are placed.

The central chapel of three forming the sanctuary of a Coptic church. Also attributive in haikal screen n. a screen, often elaborately carved or…