A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts: Their Antiquity, Use, and Symbolic SignificationPugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
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A Treatise on Chancel Screens and Rood Lofts: Their Antiquity, Use, and Symbolic Signification
Pugin, Augustus Welby Northmore
Screens (Church decoration)
There are several very curious carvings in the frieze, among which the
popular subject of the mass of S. Martin is easily distinguished.
The church which contains this very curious rood loft is situated in a
remote locality, and almost deserted; but a few years since, this
venerable relic of ancient piety and art was actually on the point of
being sold, had not a neighbouring innkeeper, who derived no small
profit from the lovers of antiquity, whom this screen brought to his
house, so resolutely opposed its removal, that it was at length suffered
to remain.
LAMBADER.
This screen, which is beautifully preserved, with flamboyant tracery, is
remarkable for the spiral staircase by which it is ascended, supported
by slender shafts, and most ingeniously constructed; the wood groining
under the rood loft is bad in principle, as savouring too much of stone
construction; but the front of the loft is elaborately carved with
tabernacle-work and imagery.
FOLGOET.
This screen, equally remarkable for the elegance of the design as the
beauty of its sculptured enrichments, is divided into three
compartments, consisting of open cusped arches, supported by pillars,
with images, under tabernacle-work, which run up above the arches, and
terminate in niches and pinnacle-work. The spaces between this and the
canopy-work over arches is filled with quatrefoil-work.
There are two altars on either side of the entrance door, and the space
between this and the arch is filled with open tracery-work, like windows.
There are numerous screens yet remaining in many of the churches of
Brittany, and originally they were to be found in all. Many others of
great interest might be described, but those selected are sufficient to
illustrate the argument.
[Plate XI:
_Iron Screen, at Toledo._
_Iron Screen, Choir of Sᵗ Sernin, Toulouse._]
[Plate XII:
_Screens erected in the 18ᵗʰ Century._
_Église D'Agnes, Picardie._
_Soissons._
_Sᵗ Paul, Trois Chateaux, Dauphiné._
_Cathédrale de Sens._]
[Plate XIII:
_Screens in Brittany._
_Folgoet._
_Sᵗ Fiacre le Faouet._
_Chapelle Sᵗ Germain, in Ribermont._
_Plan of Jubé, Notre Dame de Lépine._]
[Plate XIV:
_Lambader Brittany._
_Iron Screen at Sᵗ Riquier. 18th Century._
_Wooden Screen in the Church of Urnes, near Bergen._]
ON SCREENS IN ENGLAND.
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