Pulpitum

Those at York Minster and Canterbury Cathedral preserve complete medieval sets of statues of the kings of England.

The word pulpitum is applied in ecclesiastical Latin both to this form of screen and also for a pulpit; the secular origin of the term being a theatrical stage, or speaker's dais.

An internal stair within the thickness of the pulpitum gives access to a broad upper platform, which commonly supports the cathedral organ.

This screen was pierced by lateral doors, left and right, for processional access to the nave, and for the use of pilgrims who would pass into the eastern arm of the church via the ambulatory to the feretory or shrine, commonly located behind the high altar.

The Arundel Screen at Chichester Cathedral was removed in 1861; it was later re-erected in the Bell Tower before being returned to its original location, but with opened arches, in 1961.

The pulpitum in Exeter Cathedral , photographed in the early 20th century. The arches of the pulpitum were opened up in a 19th-century reconstruction; originally they were solid.
The pulpitum from St. John's Cathedral ('s-Hertogenbosch) now in the Victoria and Albert Museum .