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The pulpitum is a common feature in medieval cathedral and monastic church architecture in Europe. It is a massive screen that divides the choir (the area containing the choir stalls and high altar in a cathedral , collegiate or monastic church ) from the nave and ambulatory (the parts of the church to which lay worshippers may have access). [ 1 ]
15th-century rood screen from the chapel of St Fiacre at Le Faouet Morbihan, France, including the two thieves on either side of Christ Usual location of a rood screen. The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture.
Valle Crucis Abbey was founded in 1201 by Madog ap Gruffydd Maelor, [2] and was the last Cistercian monastery to be built in Wales. Founded in the principality of Powys Fadog, in the ancient commote of Iâl (Yale), Valle Crucis was the spiritual centre of the region, while Dinas Bran was the political stronghold. [3]
The medieval cathedrals of England, which date from between approximately 1040 and 1540, are a group of twenty-six buildings that constitute a major aspect of the country's artistic heritage and are among the most significant material symbols of Christianity. Though diverse in style, they are united by a common function.
The pulpit of the Notre-Dame de Revel in Revel, Haute-Garonne, France Pulpit at Blenduk Church in Semarang, Indonesia, with large sounding board and cloth antependium "Two-decker" pulpit in an abandoned Welsh chapel, with reading desk below 1870 Gothic Revival oak pulpit, Church of St Thomas, Thurstonland Ambo, in the modern Catholic sense, in Austria 19th-century wooden pulpit in Canterbury ...
Fountains Abbey is one of the largest and best preserved ruined Cistercian monasteries in England.It is located approximately 3 miles (5 km) south-west of Ripon in North Yorkshire, near to the village of Aldfield.
I have edited the first para of the article. Is it a bit clearer? As a general rule - if there is a surviving medieval screen in a parish church it will be a rood screen; if in a cathedral or collegiate church, it will be a pulpitum; a post-reformation screen is generally a "chancel screen" (and is covered in the rood screen article).
The cathedral's six altars comprised the high altar in the presbytery; the altars of St Martin, St Nicholas, and All Saints in three apsidal chapels in the easternmost wall of the church; and the altars of the Holy Cross (the parish altar) and St Stephen in the nave, set against the western side of the pulpitum. [2]