choir screen

The choir cabinet (in churches without a pronounced choir, also altar barriers) separates the parts of the church accessible to the laity from the chancel (altar room), which is reserved for the choral singing of the clergy. In the architecture of early Christian and medieval church buildings, the chancery is often executed as a richly decorated parapet.

Like the rood, the chancel served to separate the church space. As an iconostasis it is still used in orthodoxy today.

From the 15th century, the chancel was frequently replaced by a high, often ornately forged, lattice and called chorgitter. Medieval choral barriers and lattices are found among others in the Marien, Jakobi and Petrikirche of Stendal. Weblinks Edit sourcetext Commons: Choir cabinet - collection of pictures, videos and audio files Edit source text Single-level Edit source text

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