Medieval History
Photo copyright Archidave.
One of the most delightful elements of North Cerney church is the rood loft and rood group introduced in 1929 by F. C. Eden. The rood loft was erected independently of a screen and was placed above the narrow Norman chancel arch. A light screen was subsequently erected within the arch five years later.
The detailing of the loft is derived from motifs found on late medieval screens in the west country, with panels of lightly pierced tracery set above heavily carved mouldings. The rood group is corbelled out from the beam supporting the loft, rather than resting on the top rail. So the front of the loft creates an effective ground against which the figures of Our Lady and St John are placed. The plain oak of the loft creates a foil for the brightly polychromed figures.
The figure of the crucified Christ is an antique piece dating from around 1600 and was collected by Croome on his travels. It was recoloured and gilded by Eden and applied to a very Bodleyesque cross.
Photo copyright archidave.
This sumptuous loft and rood is set below a stunning fifteenth century ceiling. The ceiling, in common with many in the Cotswolds becomes richer as you go east, with the increased use of painted bosses over the eastern bay. Thus creating, in effect, a canopy of honour over the rood.
Photo copyright Eric Hardy
At the west end of the church is an early nineteenth century west gallery, which Eden had marbelled.
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In a remote valley on the edge of the Black Mountains is the tiny hamlet of Patrishow. It's church, clinging to a narrow platform on the side of the valley, is said to be the site of a hermitage occupied by 'St Issui' and the church...
- Marian Tympanum
The grand Perpendicular church at Ludham to the north-west of Norwich, has it's fair share of remarkable treasures, a lovely fifteenth century hammerbeam roof covering the nave a fine early Tudor rood screen with painted panels...
- A Remarkable Survival
South Cerney Christ, originally uploaded by Aidan McRae Thomson.This beautiful Romanesque polychromed head and foot, is all that remains of a rood dating from c.1130. The fragments were found in 1913 walled up behind the respond of a nave arcade at South...
- Layer Upon Layer Of ...
East Shefford, Berkshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.medieval wallpaintings. The tiny church of East Shefford in Berkshire, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust has some fascinating wallpaintings in the nave. The east wall of the...
- 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...
Medieval History
North Cerney, Gloucestershire - part 2
Photo copyright Archidave.
One of the most delightful elements of North Cerney church is the rood loft and rood group introduced in 1929 by F. C. Eden. The rood loft was erected independently of a screen and was placed above the narrow Norman chancel arch. A light screen was subsequently erected within the arch five years later.
The detailing of the loft is derived from motifs found on late medieval screens in the west country, with panels of lightly pierced tracery set above heavily carved mouldings. The rood group is corbelled out from the beam supporting the loft, rather than resting on the top rail. So the front of the loft creates an effective ground against which the figures of Our Lady and St John are placed. The plain oak of the loft creates a foil for the brightly polychromed figures.
The figure of the crucified Christ is an antique piece dating from around 1600 and was collected by Croome on his travels. It was recoloured and gilded by Eden and applied to a very Bodleyesque cross.
Photo copyright archidave.
This sumptuous loft and rood is set below a stunning fifteenth century ceiling. The ceiling, in common with many in the Cotswolds becomes richer as you go east, with the increased use of painted bosses over the eastern bay. Thus creating, in effect, a canopy of honour over the rood.
Photo copyright Eric Hardy
At the west end of the church is an early nineteenth century west gallery, which Eden had marbelled.
- Stone Altars And Godly Texts, Continuity Of Use At Patrishow
In a remote valley on the edge of the Black Mountains is the tiny hamlet of Patrishow. It's church, clinging to a narrow platform on the side of the valley, is said to be the site of a hermitage occupied by 'St Issui' and the church...
- Marian Tympanum
The grand Perpendicular church at Ludham to the north-west of Norwich, has it's fair share of remarkable treasures, a lovely fifteenth century hammerbeam roof covering the nave a fine early Tudor rood screen with painted panels...
- A Remarkable Survival
South Cerney Christ, originally uploaded by Aidan McRae Thomson.This beautiful Romanesque polychromed head and foot, is all that remains of a rood dating from c.1130. The fragments were found in 1913 walled up behind the respond of a nave arcade at South...
- Layer Upon Layer Of ...
East Shefford, Berkshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.medieval wallpaintings. The tiny church of East Shefford in Berkshire, now in the care of the Churches Conservation Trust has some fascinating wallpaintings in the nave. The east wall of the...
- 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...