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Definition of Parclose

Parclose
Parclose Par"close, n. [OF. See Perclose.] (Eccl. Arch.) A screen separating a chapel from the body of the church. [Written also paraclose and perclose.] --Hook.

Meaning of Parclose from wikipedia

- A parclose screen is a screen or railing used to enclose or separate-off a chantry chapel, tomb or manorial chapel, from public areas of a church, for...
- falling, and similar structures ****ociated with balconies, bridges etc. Parclose screen A screen or railing used to enclose a chantry chapel, tomb or manorial...
- medieval period many monastic churches erected an additional transverse parclose screen, or fence screen, to the west of the nave altar; an example of which...
- from the high altar not by a solid wall of masonry but by a transparent parclose screen, a hagioscope was not required as a good view of the high altar...
- (lecterns) for liturgical books Statuette of a wet nurse forming part of a parclose screen in the Basilica of Saint Maternus, Walcourt, Belgium Choir bench...
- smoke released in order to mask the movement or location of military units Parclose screen, a partition in a church, separate from the Rood screen GNU Screen...
- Northern, most foremost choir stalls, view onto the Parclose with the carved pig...
- century which is much worn. Parclose screens front both the Branch and Spring chapels. The wonderfully carved Spourne parclose screen protects the tomb of...
- Katherine, and his tomb was fenced in by the surviving elaborate wooden parclose screen which in his will he ordered his executors to erect. His widow,...
- supported by two four-winged angels, atop an intricately carved wooden parclose screen in the "Moorehayes Chapel" (alias "Moore's Chantry", "Moore's Aisle")...