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Choir screen

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(Arch.) a screen or low wall separating the choir from the aisles.

See also: Choir



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Fourteen Royal Marines above the choir screen dut down their silver trumpets.
In Wakefield Cathedral on the choir screen we see the dragon trampled down by both Mary and Christ himself.
Already in 1517 the Utrecht Cathedral had ordered a brass choir screen in the Italianate mode with the telling words that all traces of the Gothic were to be avoided; Gossaert was called in to ensure that the design met these specifications.
 
 
 
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