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Updated: May 23, 2025
The decorations of the Church, if not the entire structure, was the work of those who served at the altar. The tabernacle, the rood-screen, the ornamental font; the vellum on which the Psalms and Gospels were written; the ornamented case which contained the precious volume, were often of their making.
Very Belgian, too, in character is the rood-beam, with its three figures of Our Lord in Crucifixion, of the Virgin, and of St. John; and the striking Renaissance rood-screen in black and white marble, though not as fine as some that are found in other churches.
What we shall assuredly find is votaries ascending the steps to salute with devotion the benignant brown-faced Byzantine Virgin and Christ-Child, incrusted with superb jewels, or kneeling in "ground reverences," with brow laid to the marble pavement, before the ikonostas, or rood-screen, of solid silver.
At this time there were many disputes between the monks and the parishioners of St. Nicholas, whose altar stood from 1322, at any rate, till 1423, against the rood-screen across the end of the nave beneath the western tower-arch. In 1327, in which year Mr.
He came forward, lighted through the darkness by the gleam of the candles, which cast a huge and awful shadow from the crucifix of the rood-screen upon the pavement. Before it knelt a black figure in prayer. Ambrose advanced in some awe and doubt how to break in on these devotions, but the priest had heard his step, rose and said, "What is it, my son?
He opened the big west door softly and went softly in. There is no rood-screen in Garth church. The one aisle down the middle of the nave goes straight from the west door to the chancel-rails. Standing by the west door, behind the font, Rowcliffe had an uninterrupted view of the chancel. The organ was behind the choir stalls on the north side. Alice was seated at the organ.
James Turberville, Bishop of Exeter, is said to have lived here in seclusion, when deprived of his see in 1559. Treborough, a small village 6 m. S.W. of Williton. The district is hilly, and the church small. Trull, a village 2 m. S.W. of Taunton, on the Honiton road. Its church is of no great architectural interest, but is remarkable for its woodwork rood-screen, pulpit, and seat ends.
S. from Bristol, with a station on the Frome branch. Halse, a pleasant village, 2 m. N.W. of Milverton. It has a small but very interesting church, standing in a beautifully kept churchyard, which commands a fine view of the Quantocks. Its choicest possession is a very fine rood-screen: note the old beam above, and window.
Roman coins have been found within it. The position commands a fine view, both landward and seaward. Timberscombe, a small wayside village, 3 m. S.W. of Dunster on the Dulverton road. Within is a small coloured rood-screen resembling that at Carhampton, but with staircase intact. In the churchyard is a restored cross.
She believed that Canon Wilton had given the organist a hint that he would have an attentive hearer, for he was playing one of Bach's greatest preludes and fugues. Father Robertson stayed on in his place. All the rest of the small congregation drifted away through the archway in the rood-screen and down the steps to the nave.
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