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His figure may be seen -- as near an approach to a portrait of this great worker as we have -- among the bas-reliefs on the beautiful choir-screen in St. Michael's

Arts and Crafts in the Middle Ages A Description of Mediaeval Workmanship in Several of the Departments of Applied Art, Together with Some Account of Special Artisans in the Early Renaissance Julia de Wolf Gibbs Addison

The ambulatory is very narrow and the choir-screen very high.

Cathedrals and Cloisters of the South of France, Volume 1 Elise Whitlock Rose

'Congregation,' in which preaching is as prominent as praise, and hence came the removal of the choir-screen westward, so as to accommodate a larger audience than the Collegium proper.

Scottish Cathedrals and Abbeys Herbert Story

In the great Cathedral of Winchester (where sleep, by the way, two gentle writers specially beloved, Isaak Walton and Jane Austen) above the choir-screen to the south, you may see a line of painted chests, of which the inscription on one tells you that it holds what was mortal of King Canute.

IX. On the Lineage of English Literature (II) 1916

The other German word kanzel recalls the position of the ambo at the choir-screen

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 12: Philip II-Reuss 1840-1916 1913

A silver choir-screen rose above pillars, in the capitals of which medallions of Christ, the Blessed Virgin, saints, and prophets were carved.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 3: Brownson-Clairvaux 1840-1916 1913

Late though it was, a dim light from the great East window fell in broad slabs of purple and green shadow across the grey; everything was indistinct; only the white marble of the Reredos was like a figured sheet hanging from wall to wall, and the gilded trumpets of the angels on the choir-screen stood out dimly like spider pattern.

The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912

Candles glimmered behind the great choir-screen and there were lamps by the West door.

The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912

But when once the nave is entered, owing partly to the open and comparatively low choir-screen, the magnificent vault of nearly 400 feet may easily be understood to have few rivals in the world.

Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Winchester A Description of Its Fabric and a Brief History of the Episcopal See Philip Walsingham Sergeant 1912

He stood at the far end of the nave, just under the choir-screen, waiting for the aristocracy, for whom the front seats were guarded with cords which only he might untie.

The Cathedral Hugh Walpole 1912