Rood Screen
1375-1425 (made)
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Part of a rood screen of carved oak, with traces of colour, composed of a central pointed arch with openwork tracery in the spandrel, and the half of a similar arch on each side. The front of the loft above is an arcade with six arches, below which is a border of pierced rosettes.
Object details
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| Parts | This object consists of 20 parts.
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| Materials and techniques | carved and painted oak |
| Brief description | Portion of a rood screen of carved oak with remaining traces of colour; from All Saints Church, Tillbrook, Bedfordshire; English, 1375-1425 |
| Physical description | Part of a rood screen of carved oak, with traces of colour, composed of a central pointed arch with openwork tracery in the spandrel, and the half of a similar arch on each side. The front of the loft above is an arcade with six arches, below which is a border of pierced rosettes. |
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| Object history | This is the western part of the screen from All Saints Church, Tillbrook, Bedfordshire. The eastern part is still in situ. |
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| Bibliographic reference | Charles Tracy, English Medieval Furniture and Woodwork (London, 1988), cat. no. 95.
'PORTION of a ROOD SCREEN, with traces of colour. Composed of a central pointed arch with openwork tracery in the spandrels, and the half of a similar arch on each side. The front of the loft above is an arcade with six arches, below Which is a border of pierced quatrefoils (PL.37).
From Tilbrook Church, Cambridgeshire
Oak. Late 14th century
339 X 3.28 cm
Mus. No. W.82-1910
In the fifteenth century this fourteenth-century screen was reused as the eastern portion of the rood screen in Tilbrook Church. The remaining western part, which is still in position in the church, is illustrated in Victoria County History Series, Bedfordshire, III, p.172; and also in J.K.Colling, Gothic Ornaments, 2 Vols, London, 1848-50.Vol. II, PLS, 65, 66 and 69. On Plate 66 is a section of the screen showing the position of the portions now in the Museum (FIG.26). Probably a screen in front of a narrow chancel arch with altars on each side. This is one of the earliest rood lofts of wood. The surviving fragments were probably from the front of the original screen, utilized as the back parapet when the later screen was erected. A somewhat similar front portion with an openwork parapet above the lower part of the fifteenth century exists at Milton Ernest, Beds, though now misplaced in the north aisle (Victoria County History Series, Bedfordshire, III, p.148).' |
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| Accession number | W.82-1910 |
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| Record created | June 24, 2009 |
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