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Screen
In a medieval church, usually set at the entry to the chancel. A parclose screen separates a chapel from the rest of the church. A rood screen was placed below a representation of the Crucifixion (called a rood).
Screens passage
In an older house or college, a screened-off entrance passage between great hall and service rooms.
Scribe
(Scots): To cut and mark timber against an irregular stone or plaster surface.
Scuntion
(Scots): A reveal, i.e. the plane of a jamb between the wall and the frame of a door or window.
Section
Two-dimensional representation of a building, moulding etc., revealed by cutting across it.
Sedilia (singular: sedile)
Seats for the priests (usually three) in the wall on the south side of the chancel of a church or chapel.
Segmental pediment
A pediment with a segmental (part-circular) top.
Septum
Low wall between the choir and nave of a church.
Serlian window
In classical architecture, a window with an arched central light flanked by two lower straight-headed ones; the motif is also used for other openings. Also called a Serlian motif, Serliana, Palladian window and Venetian window.
Session house
(Scots): A room or separate building for meetings of the elders who form a kirk session, or a shelter by the entrance to a church or churchyard for an elder collecting for poor relief; built at the expense of a kirk session. A sessions house is an English term for a court house.

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