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CONTENTS.

Introduction[1]
Of the Enclosure of Choirs[14]
Of the Choir[16]
High Altar[16]
Jubé or Rood Loft[17]
Furniture of the Rood Lofts[18]
On Screens in Italy and Spain[22]
The Sistine Chapel Screen[24]
Quirinal Chapel[25]
San Clemente[25]
Basilica of St. Nerei and Achille, Rome[26]
Santa Croce[27]
San Michele[27]
San Petronio, Bologna[28]
Padua[28]
Venice[29]
On Screens in Germany and Flanders:
Screens at Lubeck[31]
Munster[33]
Brunswick[34]
Hildesheim[35]
Bremen[35]
Basle[36]
Friedberg and Glenhausen[36]
Marburg, Halberstadt, and Ulm[36]
S. Lawrence, Nuremberg[37]
Great Church at Oberwesel[37]
Haarlem[38]
Dixmude[39]
Aerscot[39]
Louvain[39]
Tournai[40]
Bruges[40]
Church of Hal, near Brussels[40]
Antwerp[41]
Ghent[42]
On Screens in France:
Cathedral of Amiens[44]
Abbaye de S. Bertin, S. Omers [45]
S. Quentin[45]
Cathedral of Lyons[46]
Cathedral of Orleans [46]
Abbey of S. Denis, near Paris[46]
Notre Dame de Mantes[47]
Abbaye de Fontenelle, or S. Wandrille[47]
Conventual Church of the Grand Augustins, Paris[48]
Church of the Mathurins, Paris[48]
Rheims[48]
S. Nicaise, Rheims[49]
S. Gatien, Tours[49]
Church of Souvigny, in the Bourbonnais[49]
Abbaye de S. Ouen, Rouen[49]
Rouen Cathedral[51]
Cathedral of Auxerre [52]
Cathedral of Chartres[52]
Cathédrale d'Albi[53]
Cathédrale d'Autun[54]
Cathédrale de Senlis[54]
Cathedral of Toulouse[54]
Church of S. Sernin, Toulouse[54]
Cathedral of Auch[55]
Cathedral of Rodez, Languedoc[55]
Cathedral of Troyes[55]
Account of the Jubés formerly standing in the Churches of Troyes[57]
Villemaur[58]
S. Germain de l'Auxerrois, Paris[59]
S. Etienne du Mont, Paris[59]
Bourges[59]
Notre Dame, Paris[60]
Abbey of Fecamp[61]
Cathedral Church of Bayeux[61]
S. Riquier, near Abbeville[62]
S. Wulfran, near Abbeville[62]
On Screens in Brittany:
S. Fiacre le Faouet[63]
Lambader[63]
Folgoet[64]
On Screens in England[65]
Accounts of S. Margaret's, Westminster[70]
S. Lawrence, Reading[71]
Churchwardens' Accompts of S. Mary Hill[72]
Churchwardens' Accompts of S. Helen's, Abingdon[72]
Extracts from the Churchwardens' Accompts of Heybridge[73]
Extracts from the Churchwardens' Accompts of Walberswick[73]
Extracts from the Churchwardens' Accompts of Woodbridge[73]
Account of the Screen in the Church of S. Giles-in-the-Fields[74]
Of the four classes of Ambonoclasts:
The Calvinist Ambonoclast[76]
The Pagan Ambonoclast[81]
The Revolutionary Ambonoclast[91]
The Modern Ambonoclast[98]
Conclusion[100]

LIST OF PLATES.

[I.]Frontispiece.
A Cathedral Screen.
A Parochial Screen.
[II.]Elevation of Screen of Old S. Peter's Church, at Rome.
Plan of the Chancel of Ditto.
[III.]Marble Screen in the Basilica of SS. Nerei and Achille.
Iron Screen from an ancient painting at Sienna, representing the Life of Pius II., by Pinturicchio.
[IV.]Marble Screen in the Church of the Frairi, Venice.
Detached Altar of S. Michele, Florence, with its Brass Screen.
[V.]Rood Screen of the Marienkirche, Lubeck.
Rood Loft, Cathedral, Munster.
[VI.]Screen in the Dom-Kirche, Lubeck.
Screen and Rood Loft, Hospital, Lubeck.
[VII.]Rood Loft, S. Katherine's Church, Lubeck.
Screen and Rood Loft, Dom, Hildesheim.
[VIII.]Screen at Glenhausen.
S. Elisabeth's Church, Marburg.
[IX.]Screen at Oberwesel.
Plan of the Jubé, Cathedral, Metz.
Plan of the Jubé, Cathedral, Toul.
Screen of S. Nicholas's Church, Lorraine.
[X.]Rood Screen, Cathedral, Antwerp: seventeenth century.
One of the Altars erected against the Nave Pillars, with its Brass Screen-work.
[XI.]Iron Screen, Choir of S. Sernin, Toulouse.
Iron Screen at Toledo.
[XII.]Screen in the Cathédrale de Sens.
Screen in S. Agnes, Picardy.
[XIII.]Screen in S. Fiacre le Faouet.
Screen in S. Folgoet.
Screen in S. Germain, in Ribermont.
Plan of Jubé, Notre Dame de l'Epine.
[XIV.]Lambader, Brittany.
Iron Screen at S. Riquier: eighteenth century.
Wooden Screen in the Church of Urnes, near Bergen.

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INTRODUCTION