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Title: Roodscreens and roodlofts
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945 Camm, Bede, 1864-1942
Subjects: Screens (Church decoration) Church architecture
Publisher: London : I. Pitman
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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sintact, save that the face of each figure has been wilfully scored out by some fanatic. There are only three out of the nearly forty painted screens in Devonshire which donot bear figures of saints but have arabesque patterns painted on their panels. AtSouth Pool, says Mr. Kejser, on some of the panels are painted in white on a redor green ground patterns of Italian design with various heads, some winged, with foliageand scrolls from the mouths, and with children or smaller figures introduced, also atthe bottom of each pattern a dragon on either side of a lily. The date cannot be earlierthan 1530. At Blackawton the panels of the screen are similarly decorated. On someare also painted shields with the implements of the Passion ; two on the north sidehave respectively the initials Si. and SS^\ clearly showing that the screen was erectedbetween the dates of the marriage of King Henry VIII and Queen Katherine and theirdivorce in 1533. At Chivelston are similar arabesque patterns (ss. 5).
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(cMiveusi-orK) ss. 5 Vol. ii—2—(2239) 216 ROODSCREENS AND ROODLOFTS (2) We give an illustration of the decoration at Chivelston. That at Blackawtonhas a pecuHar and pathetic interest on account of its date. For the divorce of QueenKatharine of Aragon was to bring about the destruction of ecclesiastical art in England,as well as of more important things. This unfortunate Queen is also commemorated bythe pomegranates so profusely carved on the fine screen at Bridford and on its debasedcopy at Lustleigh, which very probably dates from the reign of her still more unhappydaughter. There is only one probable instance of the donors of a screen being depicted on itspanels. This is at Portlemouth, where on either side of the Coronation of Our Ladypainted on the central doors, were two kneeling figures attended each by an angel.Originally (as is still shown in a drawing by the late Mr. Steinmetz) the husband was onthe north and the wife on the south. But in the terrible and drastic restorat

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