Medieval History
Site of a former side altar at Glentham in Lincolnshire, an arched niche that probably contained a panel of a reredos and beside it a bracket for an image. How tantalising these remains are, but sadly so difficult to put in any true context without any documentary evidence of the imagery they contained and supported.
Above the south porch at Glentham is something much rarer, a weathered fifteenth century image of Our Lady of Pity, a Pieta. Below it are the arms of the Tourney family of Caenby, who presumably paid for the porch.
Further north near Brigg Lincolnshire is the rather rustic and isolated church at Cadney. One of the Norman nave pillars of the south arcade has been adapted in the fourteenth century in order to admit a bracket and canopy for a long-lost image.
- The Image Of Pity - The Wellingham Rood Screen.
Wellingham is a remote little hamlet in the middle of Norfolk to the south of Fakenham. It's church, heavily rebuilt in 1896 is rather undistinguished, but it contains a great treasure. The dado of a rood screen from the 1530s. ...
- Memorial Altarpiece
The parish church of Youlgreave in the Derbyshire peak district, has a rather remarkable and interesting medieval alabaster panel. This rectangular panel is currently set into the wall above the altar at the east end of the north nave aisle, though it...
- Saxo-norman Sundials (more On Stow)
Sorry for the absence from blogging, I've had a rather nasty case of the Shingles and haven't been able to do anything much. It has well and truly sapped my energy and my mental powers. I'm just about getting back to my old...
- More Shadows Of Former Things
Theddlethorpe All Saints, Lincolnshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.All Saints, Theddlethorpe is in the remote coastal fringe of Lincolnshire. Many of the churches in this area are relatively unrestored and retain a lot of medieval fittings and...
- Shadows Of Former Things
My apologies for neglecting the blog, it has been rather a hectic ten days. My day off last week, which is the day I usually write for the blog was taken up with a visit to Nottinghamshire with Gordon Plumb. We went to a couple of very fine churches....
Medieval History
Shadows of Former Things Part III
Site of a former side altar at Glentham in Lincolnshire, an arched niche that probably contained a panel of a reredos and beside it a bracket for an image. How tantalising these remains are, but sadly so difficult to put in any true context without any documentary evidence of the imagery they contained and supported.
Above the south porch at Glentham is something much rarer, a weathered fifteenth century image of Our Lady of Pity, a Pieta. Below it are the arms of the Tourney family of Caenby, who presumably paid for the porch.
Further north near Brigg Lincolnshire is the rather rustic and isolated church at Cadney. One of the Norman nave pillars of the south arcade has been adapted in the fourteenth century in order to admit a bracket and canopy for a long-lost image.
- The Image Of Pity - The Wellingham Rood Screen.
Wellingham is a remote little hamlet in the middle of Norfolk to the south of Fakenham. It's church, heavily rebuilt in 1896 is rather undistinguished, but it contains a great treasure. The dado of a rood screen from the 1530s. ...
- Memorial Altarpiece
The parish church of Youlgreave in the Derbyshire peak district, has a rather remarkable and interesting medieval alabaster panel. This rectangular panel is currently set into the wall above the altar at the east end of the north nave aisle, though it...
- Saxo-norman Sundials (more On Stow)
Sorry for the absence from blogging, I've had a rather nasty case of the Shingles and haven't been able to do anything much. It has well and truly sapped my energy and my mental powers. I'm just about getting back to my old...
- More Shadows Of Former Things
Theddlethorpe All Saints, Lincolnshire, originally uploaded by Vitrearum.All Saints, Theddlethorpe is in the remote coastal fringe of Lincolnshire. Many of the churches in this area are relatively unrestored and retain a lot of medieval fittings and...
- Shadows Of Former Things
My apologies for neglecting the blog, it has been rather a hectic ten days. My day off last week, which is the day I usually write for the blog was taken up with a visit to Nottinghamshire with Gordon Plumb. We went to a couple of very fine churches....