English: The great screen behind the high altar of Winchester Cathedral. Constructed in the second half of the 15th century when William Waynflete was Bishop of Winchester (1447–1486). The niches originally housed over fifty painted stone sculptures representing the Company of Heaven, with Christ crucified surrounded by saints, kings, and bishops. All the sculptures were pulled down in the 1550s, and many were cut up and reused as building blocks. Some of the heads and torsos of the sculptures have been rediscovered during repairs and construction work in the Cathedral Close (see 15th-century stone sculptures from the Great Screen at Winchester Cathedral (4).jpg). The niches remained empty until the end of the 19th century, when new sculptures (seen in this image) made by Richard L. Boulton and others were installed between 1885 and 1891.