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Roodscreens and roodlofts (1909)

Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 182

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creen 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 of the parish church is reputed to have come from someneighbouring abbey or priory at the Dissolution : and although… … POST-REFORMATION SCREENWORK 101 fact that much of the fine carving was done prior to the fifteenth century by artistsattached to the monasteries, as Conversi or Lay Brethren.1 At Aysgarth the screen of exquisite workmanship is said to have been brought fromJervaulx Abbey, and its position in the…

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