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pulpitum Archit.|ˈpʊlpɪtəm|
[L.: see pulpit n.]
A stone screen separating the choir from the nave and freq. surmounted by a loft housing the organ.
1845R. Willis tr. Gervase of Canterbury in Archit. Hist. Canterbury Cathedral iii. 37 A screen with a loft (pulpitum)..separated in a manner the aforesaid tower from the nave. 1908F. Bond Screens & Galleries Eng. Churches iv. 159 The pulpitum differed from the rood screen in many ways. It formed the eastern barrier of the quire, and against the eastern face of it were placed the return stalls. Ibid., The pulpitum always had a spacious loft above it, and carried the organ. 1923Trans. Scottish Ecclesiol. Soc. VII. 101 As originally placed the painting took the shape of a boarded tympanum, occupying the entire space upward from the back of the pulpitum, or loft, to the roof. 1937Burlington Mag. Mar. 128/2 The ‘Master of the Naumburg Sculptures’..was responsible..for the sculptures on the pulpitum in Mainz Cathedral. 1966J. Fleming et al. Penguin Dict. Archit. 179/2 Pulpitum, a stone screen in a major church erected to shut off the choir from the nave. It could also be used as a backing for the return choir stalls. |