altar screen

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Noun

altar screen (plural altar screens)

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Particularly: "not a good image - this is not a screen separating the nave from chancel/altar area"
Altar and screen
  1. (architecture, Christianity) A partition, often richly decorated, separating the nave from the chancel in a church; a rood screen.

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