Identifier: devoncornwallnot06amer (find matches)
Title: Devon & Cornwall notes & queries
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Amery, John S
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Publisher: Exeter, England : J.G. Commin
Contributing Library: Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center
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Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 133 129. Painted Screen Panels in Heavitree Church.—Until the reign of Queen Elizabeth every English Churchhad a rood-screen which separated the Chancel from theNave. The screen supported a gallery, or sometimes simplya beam, on which was raised the Holy Rood or Crucifix.In some cases the rood was on an independent beam abovethe screen. After the Reformation it^was decreed that the rood shouldbe removed, and also the gallery or rood-loft, but that theactual screen should remain as before. Here and there the original screens still stand, addingdistinction and interest—even mutilated as they are—to thechurches in which they are found; but in many moreinstances they have been allowed to fall into decay, or havebeen deliberately discarded. In the Church of St. Michael, Heavitree, some of therood-screen was still standing in 1840, as is mentioned byDr. Oliver in his Ecclesiastical Antiquities.* The Church was rebuilt 1844-46, and then, or soon af

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