Roodscreens and roodlofts . (A) Lapfokd. 4 >• ^.- . (B) SWYMBRIDGE SCREENWORK IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON 291 ATHERINGTON (Saint Mary). Umberleigh Station. This church contains two screens. (1) A portion of the original roodscreen, being the north-aisle section. This screen is justlycelebrated on account of its exquisite design and finish, and has moreover a special interest forecclesiologists, owing to the fact that it still retains, in an almost perfect state, the originalbalconies or gallery-fronts to the east and west sides of loft (Plates XXXVb, LXXV, andFig. 103). This survival, being prac
Roodscreens and roodlofts . (A) Lapfokd. 4 >• ^.- . (B) SWYMBRIDGE SCREENWORK IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON 291 ATHERINGTON (Saint Mary). Umberleigh Station. This church contains two screens. (1) A portion of the original roodscreen, being the north-aisle section. This screen is justlycelebrated on account of its exquisite design and finish, and has moreover a special interest forecclesiologists, owing to the fact that it still retains, in an almost perfect state, the originalbalconies or gallery-fronts to the east and west sides of loft (Plates XXXVb, LXXV, andFig. 103). This survival, being practically unique in the county has furnished a most accurateand desirable model for restorations, and for new work of the same order. It inspired thereconstruction of the Staverton roodloft by one of its writers in 1891, and later furnished valuablehints for the restoration of the beautiful ancient fragments at Kenton. The real object of the loft and a description of it as it would have appeared in its completenessare elsewhere describe
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