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A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts

by A. W. N. Pugin

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The Church of Souvigny, in the Bourbonnais

Has still preserved a most elegant choir screen. It is divided by slender stone mullions into compartments, filled with light and elegant tracery, surmounted by crocketed canopy-work, terminated by bratishing. It is a work of the fifteenth century, and greatly resembles the English screens of the same period, both in design and detail.

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