Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . Walter W. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 133 129. Painted Screen Panels in Heavitree Church.—Until the reign of Queen Elizabeth every English Churchhad a rood-screen which separated the Chancel from theNave. The screen supported a gallery, or sometimes simplya beam, on which was raised the Holy Rood or some cases the rood was on an independent beam abovethe screen. After the Reformation it^was decreed that the rood shouldbe removed, and also the gallery or rood-loft, but that theactual screen should remain as before. Here and there
Devon & Cornwall notes & queries . Walter W. Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries. 133 129. Painted Screen Panels in Heavitree Church.—Until the reign of Queen Elizabeth every English Churchhad a rood-screen which separated the Chancel from theNave. The screen supported a gallery, or sometimes simplya beam, on which was raised the Holy Rood or some cases the rood was on an independent beam abovethe screen. After the Reformation it^was decreed that the rood shouldbe removed, and also the gallery or rood-loft, but that theactual screen should remain as before. Here and there the original screens still stand, addingdistinction and interest—even mutilated as they are—to thechurches in which they are found; but in many moreinstances they have been allowed to fall into decay, or havebeen deliberately discarded. In the Church of St. Michael, Heavitree, some of therood-screen was still standing in 1840, as is mentioned byDr. Oliver in his Ecclesiastical Antiquities.* The Church was rebuilt 1844-46, and then, or soon af
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