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Roodscreens and roodlofts (1909)

Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 181

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100 ROODSCREENS AND ROODLOFTS § 49- Before considering this important point in detail, let us for the sake of chrono-logical exactness, view the changes brought about by the Reformation in their propersequence, as affecting the subject of this essay. The great step taken in King Henry VIIIs reign,… … Fig. 69 consequence of this, a great deal of the heavier and less intrinsically costly furniture (suchas carved oak screen work), which had graced the monastic churches, was removed bypious hands and reinstated in the parish churches. Thus we find quite a number of casesin which the chancel screen…

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