Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Eccles., an ornamental screen of stone or timber on which a church organ, usually a secondary organ, smaller than the great organ, is placed in cathedrals.
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Examples
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When the restorations were commenced which have resulted in the present splendid embellishment of the Cathedral, the organ-screen was removed; and in 1851 the organ was re-modelled and altered to the
Ely Cathedral Anonymous
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In this plan the choir is represented as it was arranged in olden times, and not as it appeared after it was shortened by the erection of the organ-screen under the eastern arch of the tower in Dean Monk's time.
The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See W.D. Sweeting
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The main aisle, formerly isolated from the dome by the organ and organ-screen, is now separated only by a low railing, and the space underneath the chancel arch has been included.
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Saint Paul An Account of the Old and New Buildings with a Short Historical Sketch Arthur Dimock
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Cathedral between the west end and the organ-screen.
Devon, Its Moorlands, Streams and Coasts Rosalind Northcote
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In the western part of the choir, namely, between the eastern transepts and the organ-screen, this wall is built so that its inner face nearly ranges with the inner faces of the pillars; but eastward of the transepts it is built between the pillars.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
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This king had made liberal offerings towards the rebuilding of the nave of the cathedral, and it has been conjectured that one of the figures on the organ-screen represents him: his will ordered that he should be laid to rest in the church at Canterbury, and here accordingly he was buried on the Trinity Sunday after his death.
The Cathedral Church of Canterbury [2nd ed.]. Hartley Withers 1908
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The organ-screen built by Wyatt out of fragments of the Hungerford and
Bell's Cathedrals: The Cathedral Church of Salisbury A Description of its Fabric and a Brief History of the See of Sarum Gleeson White 1874
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Edward I., for instance, continued his father's work from the crossing of the transepts to one bay west of the present organ-screen, while after him Richard II. and
Westminster The Fascination of London A. Murray Smith 1868
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DURHAM CATHEDRAL has one advantage over the others which I have seen, there being no organ-screen, nor any sort of partition between the choir and nave; so that we saw its entire length, nearly five hundred feet, in one vista.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 2. Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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DURHAM CATHEDRAL has one advantage over the others which I have seen, there being no organ-screen, nor any sort of partition between the choir and nave; so that we saw its entire length, nearly five hundred feet, in one vista.
Passages from the English Notebooks, Complete Nathaniel Hawthorne 1834
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