A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts / Their Antiquity, Use, and Symbolic Signification
by Augustus Welby Northmore Pugin
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- A TREATISE ON CHANCEL SCREENS AND ROOD LOFTS,
- CONTENTS.
- LIST OF PLATES.
- INTRODUCTION
- OF THE ENCLOSURE OF CHOIRS,
- THE CONSTITUTIONS OF S. CHARLES BORROMEO
- Of the Choir.
- Of the High Altar.
- OF THE JUBÉ, OR ROOD LOFT.
- OF THE FURNITURE OF THE ROOD LOFTS.
- From the Instructiones Fabricæ of S. Charles Borromeo.
- ON SCREENS IN ITALY AND SPAIN.
- THE SISTINE CHAPEL SCREEN.
- THE QUIRINAL CHAPEL
- SAN CLEMENTE.
- THE BASILICA OF ST. NEREI AND ACHILLE, ROME.[9]
- SANTA CROCE.
- SAN MICHELE.
- SAN PETRONIO, BOLOGNA.
- PADUA.
- VENICE.
- ON SCREENS IN GERMANY AND FLANDERS.
- SCREENS AT LUBECK.
- MUNSTER.
- BRUNSWICK.
- HILDESHEIM.
- BREMEN.
- BASLE.
- FRIEDBERG AND GELNHAUSEN.
- MARBURG.
- HALBERSTADT.
- ULM.
- S. LAWRENCE CHURCH, NUREMBERG.
- THE GREAT CHURCH AT OBERWESEL.
- HAARLEM.
- DIXMUDE.
- AERSCOT.
- LOUVAIN.
- TOURNAI.
- BRUGES.
- THE CHURCH OF HAL, NEAR BRUSSELS.
- ANTWERP.
- GHENT.
- ON SCREENS IN FRANCE.
- CATHEDRAL OF AMIENS.
- ABBAYE DE S. BERTIN, S. OMERS.
- S. QUENTIN.
- CATHEDRAL OF LYONS.[13]
- CATHEDRAL OF ORLEANS.
- ABBEY OF S. DENIS, NEAR PARIS.
- NOTRE DAME DE MANTES.
- ABBAYE DE FONTENELLE, OR S. WANDRILLE.
- CONVENTUAL CHURCH OF THE GRANDS AUGUSTINES, PARIS.
- CHURCH OF THE MATHURINS, PARIS.
- RHEIMS.
- S. NICAISE, RHEIMS.
- S. GATIEN, TOURS.
- THE CHURCH OF SOUVIGNY, IN THE BOURBONNAIS.
- ABBAYE DE S. OUEN, ROUEN.
- ROUEN CATHEDRAL.
- CATHEDRAL OF AUXERRE.
- CATHEDRAL OF CHARTRES.
- CATHÉDRALE D'ALBI.
- CATHÉDRALE D'AUTUN.
- CATHEDRALE DE SENLIS.
- CATHEDRAL OF TOULOUSE.
- CHURCH OF S. SERNIN, TOULOUSE.
- CATHEDRAL OF AUCH.
- CATHEDRAL OF RODEZ, LANGUEDOC.
- CATHEDRAL OF TROYES.
- Account of the Jubés formerly standing in the Churches of Troyes.
- VILLEMAUR.
- S. GERMAIN DE L'AUXERROIS, PARIS, PARISH CHURCH.
- S. ETIENNE DU MONT, PARIS, PARISH CHURCH.
- BOURGES.
- NOTRE DAME, PARIS.
- ABBEY OF FECAMP.
- CATHEDRAL CHURCH OF BAYEUX.
- S. RIQUIER, NEAR ABBEVILLE.
- S. WULFRAN, ABBEVILLE.
- ON SCREENS IN BRITTANY.
- S. FIACRE LE FAOUET.
- LAMBADER.
- FOLGOET.
- ON SCREENS IN ENGLAND.
- ACCOUNTS OF ST. MARGARET'S, WESTMINSTER.
- S. LAWRENCE, READING.
- EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDEN'S ACCOMPTS OF ST. MARY HILL, LONDON.
- EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOMPTS OF THE PARISH OF ST. HELEN'S, ABINGDON.
- EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOMPTS OF HEYBRIDGE.
- EXTRACTS FROM THE CHURCHWARDENS' ACCOMPTS OF WALBERSWICK.
- WOODBRIDGE.
- ACCOUNT OF THE SCREEN IN THE CHURCH OF ST. GILES-IN-THE-FIELDS.
- OF THE FOUR CLASSES OF AMBONOCLASTS.
- THE CALVINIST AMBONOCLAST.
- THE PAGAN AMBONOCLAST.
- THE REVOLUTIONARY AMBONOCLAST.
- THE MODERN AMBONOCLAST.
- CONCLUSION.
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