ˈrood-screen
[f. rood n. 3.]
A screen, usually of richly carved wood or stone and properly surmounted by a rood, crossing the nave of a church beneath the chancel-arch and separating the nave from the choir.
| 1843 Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl. VI. 256/1 The inclosure of the altar by a screen or railing, answering to the rood-screen. 1861 Archæol. æliana V. xvii. 157 The seats..are the residue of those which..occupied their appropriate place along the east front of the rood-screen. 1870 F. R. Wilson Ch. Lindisf. 61 A carved oak rood-screen has been recently placed at the chancel arch. |
| attrib. 1862 Catal. Internat. Exhib., Brit. II. No. 5983, A pair of rood-screen gates in hammered iron and brass. |