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Roed screen (choir screen), from the church in Helvoirt
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Roed screen (choir screen), from the church in Helvoirt

anonymous · c. 1500 · wood (plant material); oak (wood)

From the collection of Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Free to download, adapt and use — no permission needed.

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Oak choir stall. On a framework of heavy posts and beams (ribwood) stands a double choir screen, upon which the floor of the actual choir loft rests. This is surrounded on all sides by a screen at hip height. The lower structure is closed to chest height with smooth panels, above which lie heavy beams. On these beams stands a railing of narrow posts, which closes against the upper beam of the lower structure in Gothic arcades with tracery. Two bays of the lower structure turn as doors, but their doorframe beams lie below the upper beam of the whole. Continuing the posts of the lower structure, the legs of the double choir screen rise. The railing of the choir loft is divided on one long side (facing the nave of the church) by pinnacles into ten panels, decorated with Tudor arches, standing five on each side of a bay window projecting in three sides of a hexagon. The arches are filled in the corners with openwork Gothic tracery. The bay window has a hanging drip vault at the bottom.

Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam’s own description
Credit lineOksaal (koorafscheiding), afkomstig uit de kerk te Helvoirt. c. 1500. anonymous. Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam. Public domain.

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