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Roodscreens and roodlofts (1909)

Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945, Camm, Bede, 1864-1942 · London, I. Pitman · leaf 62

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EARLY SCREENWORK 29 So far then as documentary evidence can guide us, it appears that the British(Celtic) churches contained a solid or opaque sanctuary screen. For the rest we may assume, with Gilbert Scott, that they … Irish that oratories in their Fig wall separating sanctuary from navepenetrated, as at St. Lawrence, Bradford-on-Avon, by a single opening of the slenderestproportions, we have the counterpart of theKildare screen in another material and styleof building. In these churches of the Saxonera, too, it…

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