Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 152
nce, said to date originally from about the ninth century, at Locmaria,near Quimper, in Brittany, in which the figure stands centrally upon a beam in front ofthe chancel arch. Another instance of the early type of rood is seen in the example at Lucca(Fig. 66), in which the figure is purely symbolic… … THE ICONOSTASIS AND THE ROODLOFT 83 was adopted in our churches at least as early as the eleventh century, although theywere probably not general until the fourteenth or fifteenth century. A rood isrecorded at Battle Abbey a.d. 1095. Gervase,the monk of Canterbury, relates that overthe screen in…
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