The works chantry screen in the great south transept of Lincoln Cathedral

The stone screen enclosing the works chantry in the main south transept of Lincoln Cathedral is described. It is shown that the screen contains many original panels and sections, but that it has been comprehensively rebuilt following demolition. During the process of that rebuilding, it is suggested, items of architectural salvage from fittings elsewhere in the Cathedral were incorporated. It is further suggested that the original screen was first erected in the early 1360s as part of the establishment of the chantry of Henry of Grosmont (1310–1361), duke of Lancaster and earl of Lincoln, and that it was demolished in 1644. It is proposed that the screen’s reconstruction dates from the twenty years or so following the Restoration and was one of a series of projects within the cathedral undertaken at that time by bishops with antiquarian interests.