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Roodscreens and roodlofts (1909)

Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 178

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a Post-Reformation work. Thereasons for this opinion are given in Mr. Scharfs valuable monograph in the Archaeologiafor 1854. In this instance the panel was upon the face of the screen. Instances are recorded of the setting-up of paintings of prophets or evangelists uponthe screens subsequently to… … POST-REFORMATION SCREENWORK 99 As a pulpit, the roodloft has never, so far as we are aware, been specificallycondemned, but this manner of employing it had fallen into abeyance with the introductionof the pulpit on the floor of the church, so that the Reformation brought little changein this…

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