The Church of the Good Shepherd in Rosemont, Pennsylvania, is an Episcopal parish church in the progressive Anglo-Catholic tradition. It is part of the Episcopal Diocese of Pennsylvania and is located
The bell tower and north entrance
West Window, with St. Michael the Archangel (center), a memorial to the dead of the First World War
Church building c. 1910.
Rood screen and chancel ceiling
Rood screen
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The rood screen is a common feature in late medieval church architecture. It is typically an ornate partition between the chancel and nave, of more or less open tracery constructed of wood, stone, or
Church of the Good Shepherd (Rosemont, Pennsylvania)
…clerestory, all with stained glass. In all, the building's stained glass includes 50 figurative windows and six ornamental windows. A large carved wooden rood screen surmounted with a crucifixion separates the chancel from the nave. The screen, designed by Percy M. Fowler of Trenton, New Jersey, was added to the…
Rood screen, with loft and modern Crucifixion, at St Carantoc's Church, Crantock, Cornwall.
East end of the 8th-century Roman basilica of Santa Maria in Cosmedin in Rome, showing the altar, under a 13th-century ciborium behind a templon screen of columns. The foreground forms the liturgical choir, surrounded by low cancelli screens, to which are attached two ambos, left and right.
Rood and beam of 1275, but no screen, at Öja Church on the island of Gotland in Sweden, where many exceptional roods have survived.