altar screen

The two merge in one of the show’s earliest pieces, the 1995 “Iron Heavens,” a kind of altar screen pieced together from black oven pans, against which lean baseball bats, fire-scorched and covered with patchy tufts of cotton.

“I did the sanctuary of the St. Brendan Church in Shallotte with beautiful millwork,” said Setterfield, who also designed a 16-by-14-foot altar screen.

Next let us study the modern reredos or altar screen, all of white stone and marble, having as its background the three lancet windows of the east end, filled with not unworthy modern glass, against which it stands out with grace and dignity; a space of thirty feet intervening.

Among the latter we may note the high altar screen at S. Alban’s, and the stalls at Carlisle and Ripon.

Here we saw also an ancient marble chair, a marble altar screen, and a pavement in the ribbon mosaic, of which arch�ologues have so much to say.