A parclose screen is a screen or railing used to enclose or separate-off a chantry chapel,[1] tomb or manorial chapel, from public areas of a church, for example from the nave or chancel. It should be distinguished from the chancel screen which separates the chancel from the nave, in order to restrict access to the former to clerics and other select persons.
- ^ . Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed.). 1911.