Parker, John Henry, 1806-1884 · Oxford [etc.] Parker and Co. · leaf 226
very beautifulexamples of Decorated woodwork in screens, and stallswith their canopies, as at Winchester; there are alsoa few wooden tombs of that period. In Norfolk there are several fine examples remain-ing of galleries and screens, commonly called roodlofts,being used at the west end of the… … St. Stephens Church, Norwich, c. A.D. 1500. 216 THE PERPENDICTTLAE STYLE. quasi-roodloffc at each end of the nave. There is nodoubt that this custom prevailed in many other coun-ties also, but the western loft has generally beendestroyed in consequence of the barbarous custom ofblocking up the…
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