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A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts

by A. W. N. Pugin

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Basle

This cathedral, now used for Lutheran worship, has a very fine close screen, with the remains of a central altar, and two side doorways.

Friedberg and Gelnhausen

Have the same arrangement, as may be seen by the plates.

Marburg

The screen is a decorated wall, entirely shutting off the choir, with an altar in the centre. See plate.

Halberstadt

Has a fine rood loft, of the end of the fifteenth, or beginning of the sixteenth century.

Ulm

The central altar, surmounted with screen and canopy-work, is still remaining; but the connecting work between it and the stalls has been removed, probably about the middle of the last century, and an iron railing substituted. This church, which is one of the finest in Germany for its elevation and interesting details, is now used for the Lutheran worship, but, with the exception of this screen, the original fittings remain perfect.

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