ROUEN CATHEDRAL.
Langlois, Notice sur l'Incendie de la Cathédrale de Rouen:—
"1467. The stalls of the choir erected. The ancient jubé was probably built at the same time.
"1526. An open screen-work of brass, most artificially wrought, set up round the sides of choir, at the cost of the Cardinal D'Amboise.
"1562. Pillage of the cathedral by the Calvinists, the jubé defaced, and the brass screens carried off and melted.
"1639. A new altar, dedicated to the Blessed Virgin, was erected under the screen, in consequence of a vow made during a pestilence.
"1642. A new altar, dedicated in honour of S. Cecily, erected under the screen.
"1777. The chapter erect a new screen (consisting of eight marble pillars, of the Ionic order, surmounted by an entablature and open balustrade. In the centre a large crucifix, and two marble altars, with images on either side of the choir gates)."
This screen is still standing, and although of execrable design, and most incongruous with the noble church in which it has been erected, it is still a proof that, at the end of the eighteenth century, a screen and rood loft was considered necessary by the clergy of this cathedral, and being entirely of white marble, its cost was far greater than that for which a splendid screen in perfect character with the church could have been constructed.