Roodscreens and roodlofts . (A) In Roodscreen : Bovey Tracey. (B) Stoke-in-Teignhead (Early Form) PART V SCREENWORK IN THE CoUNTY OF Cornwall Vol. ii—22—(2239) PART V SCREENWORK IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL As a county, Cornwall has suffered far more in the wholesale destruction of itsancient ecclesiastical woodwork than has the sister county of Devon ; andthe screens have apparently been singled out as a special object of attack. Outof all the two hundred and fifty and odd ancient churches in the Diocese of Truro, all ofwhich were at one time most indubitably furnished with roodscreens, if not w
Roodscreens and roodlofts . (A) In Roodscreen : Bovey Tracey. (B) Stoke-in-Teignhead (Early Form) PART V SCREENWORK IN THE CoUNTY OF Cornwall Vol. ii—22—(2239) PART V SCREENWORK IN THE COUNTY OF CORNWALL As a county, Cornwall has suffered far more in the wholesale destruction of itsancient ecclesiastical woodwork than has the sister county of Devon ; andthe screens have apparently been singled out as a special object of attack. Outof all the two hundred and fifty and odd ancient churches in the Diocese of Truro, all ofwhich were at one time most indubitably furnished with roodscreens, if not with otherinterior screenwork as well, but fifty at most now present any remnant—and of thesefifty, the large majority can, alas ! show nothing but the most meagre fragments. A number of screens probably disappeared as a result of seventeenth centuryPuritanical violence—which has left an indelible mark in the district—witness that ofSt. Ives, which, with the organ, fell a prey to the fury of the iconoclasts in 1647-8. Theroodscreen of St. Columb Ma
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