Medieval History
Chancel of Coates
Coates by Stow, Lincolnshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum. A response to the enquiry by Canon Tallis about the seating of the chancel at Coates. As you can see there is nothing to suggest the medieval seating arrangements here. The back of the screen is traceried and there is no evidence of returned stalls facing east. Even the floor appears to be fairly new, rather different than that in the nave!
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Hailes, Gloucestershire - Post-reformation Liturgical Arrangements
I'm very grateful to Roger Mortimer for his fascinating comment on Elizabethan table carpets, which he has posted on my Buckland vestments article. In his post he mentioned in passing the Elizabethan liturgical arrangements, that until the mid twentieth...
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Coates By Stow - A Few More Photos.
This view of the church from the south was taken by Tudor Barlow. The simple two-cell plan is evident, the south door with its zigzag ornament revealing that the church is essentially Norman. Notice also the tiny little two-light window that illuminates...
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Time Stood Still...
... at Coates-by-Stow in Lincolnshire. The church of St Edith Coates-by-Stow appears to have avoided the notice of the sixteenth century reformers and has preserved it's pre-Reformation fittings more-or-less intact. It's in a fairly isolated...
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The Rood Loft At St Margarets In Herefordshire
St Margarets, Herefordshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.St Margaret's church in the remote hamlet of St Margarets overloooking the 'Golden Valley' in Herefordshire, has a remarkable survival. A complete early sixteenth century rood...
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Spandrel Paintings In Lincolnshire
Friskney, Lincolnshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum. Lincolnshire is not known for its medieval panel paintings, but recently I came across these two naive censing angels at Friskney in the Lincolnshire marsh. They are painted on the eastern spandrels...
Medieval History