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Identifier: roodscreensroodl02bond (find matches)
Title: Roodscreens and roodlofts
Year: 1909 (1900s)
Authors: Bond, Frederick Bligh, 1864-1945 Camm, Bede, 1864-1942
Subjects: Screens (Church decoration) Church architecture
Publisher: London : I. Pitman
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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Thelining is red. Round his neck he has a large rosary ending in a red tassel. The largebeads are red and the small white. A Tau-headed staff is in his left hand, and in hisright a book, and what appear to be traces of a bell. On his shoulder is a red Tau cross. A similar figure, though better designed, is found at Ashton (ss. 9). Here St.Anthony is in black and white habit as at Plj-Tntree, but without the red lining ; awhite Tau cross on his black cappa, and the pig at his side. St. Anthonys symbols,the bell and the Tau cross, appear constantly in the carved work on the screen at Kenton,as Bishop Courtenay, who gave that screen, had been Master of St. Anthonys Hospital inLondon. St. Anthony was very popular in England, and his image is found on theEast Anglian roodscreens, in a window at Norbury in Derbyshire, and in other parts of Mr. Keyser in his paper says St. Bartholomew, but he tells us that this is merely a clericalerror, and agrees with us that it is St. Anthony. > -1 (1^
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^^ z PANELS OF DEVONSHIRE SCREENS 219 the countty. At Strensham in Worcestershire, St. Anthony is painted on a panel of theroodloft gallerj, in a similar black-and-white habit adorned with the Tau cross, andaccompanied by a very realistic pig, who looks up in the saints face in a delightfullyconfidential manner. These panels, however, have been repainted. (2) St. Thomas, with a spear. This may be St. Matthew, who is also represented inart with a spear. (3) 5^ James Major in white \vith red mantle, hat with scallop-shell, and in righthand a pilgrims staff. This is the usual representation of this saint. The scallop-shellabounds on the sea-shore at Santiago de Compostella, the saints famous shrine in Spain,and was picked up by the numerous pilgrims to his tomb and worn as the badge of thosewho had made the pilgrimage (ss. 8). (4) St. John Baptist, patron of the church, in camels hair tunic, pointing to the Lambof God. (5) Our Blessed Lord. The blood is flowing from His wounds. The crown

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