rood screen

noun

1. a screen, often of elaborate design and properly surmounted by a rood, separating the nave from the choir or chancel of a church.

rood screen

noun

1. a partition of stone or wood, often richly carved and decorated, that separates the chancel from the main part of a church: it is surmounted by a crucifix (rood), and was an important feature of medieval churches, though in England many rood screens were destroyed at the Reformation

Word History and Origins

Origin of rood screen¹

First recorded in 1835–45

Example Sentences

Among the Perpendicular additions to the church last named may be noted a very beautiful oaken rood-screen.

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There seems now to be a general inclination towards a revival of the rood screen.

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The oaken rood screen is reputed to be the oldest wooden partition of the kind in the country.

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The present rood screen and canopied stalls were put in toward the close of the fifteenth century.

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The upper stalls number in all thirty-six, fifteen on either side, and six with their backs to the rood screen.

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