This screen, equally remarkable for the elegance of the design as the
beauty of its sculptured enrichments, is divided into three
compartments, consisting of open cusped arches, supported by pillars,
with images, under tabernacle-work, which run up above the arches, and
terminate in niches and pinnacle-work. The spaces between this and the
canopy-work over arches is filled with quatrefoil-work.
There are two altars on either side of the entrance door, and the space
between this and the arch is filled with open tracery-work, like windows.
There are numerous screens yet remaining in many of the churches of
Brittany, and originally they were to be found in all. Many others of
great interest might be described, but those selected are sufficient to
illustrate the argument.
[Plate XI:
_Iron Screen, at Toledo._
_Iron Screen, Choir of Sᵗ Sernin, Toulouse._]
[Plate XII:
_Screens erected in the 18ᵗʰ Century._
_Église D'Agnes, Picardie._
_Soissons._
_Sᵗ Paul, Trois Chateaux, Dauphiné._
_Cathédrale de Sens._]
[Plate XIII:
_Screens in Brittany._
_Folgoet._
_Sᵗ Fiacre le Faouet._
_Chapelle Sᵗ Germain, in Ribermont._
_Plan of Jubé, Notre Dame de Lépine._]
[Plate XIV:
_Lambader Brittany._
_Iron Screen at Sᵗ Riquier. 18th Century._
_Wooden Screen in the Church of Urnes, near Bergen._]