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What is a parclose?

What is a parclose? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. A partition that closes off part of a building; especially one that separates an altar or chapel from the rest of a church.
  2. (obsolete) An enclosed area, especially one separated from the main body of a building by a screen or partition.
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The parclose Screen, separating the choir from the presbytery, is a peculiar feature of this Cathedral.
On the occasion of the Biennale des Antiquaires, G. F. asked us to restore a parclose ensemble from the seventeenth century, whose sobriety we all admired.
In the image of the mass, the priest elevates the host, an attendant rings the sacring bell, and two persons peek over the edge of the parclose.
Within this screen, evidently a good many years later, a manorial pew was made, the side of which is within the parclose.
The north porch, separated by a parclose from the chapel of the Cross, has an excellent Transitional door.
Great inconvenience often arises from the exclusive character of the parclose.

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