Examples of English medieval foliage and coloured decoration, taken from buildings of the twelfth to the fifteenth century: with descriptive letterpress (1874)
Colling, James Kellaway · London, The author [etc.] · leaf 90
th gold stars, with red fillets and gold bead. The lower panels of thescreen are filled in with figures of saints and apostles, the dresses of which are allbeautifully diapered on gold. Fig. 78 is from the dress of St. Jude, and is red and gold.Numbers of these screens have the lower panels filled… … Fig. 78. from the rood-screen (now removed tothe west end) at Attleborough Church,Norfolk. The wooden roofs of the Perpendi-cular period were sometimes richly deco-rated in colour, and the sacred monogram,alternating with the monogram of the holyVirgin, was of frequent occurrence. Theywere often…
Decoration and ornament · Church decoration and ornament · Decoration and ornament, Medieval · Decoration and ornament, Architectural · Mural painting and decoration
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