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Medieval English Roodscreens, with Special Reference to Devon Medieval English Roodscreens, with special reference to Devon. Submitted by Michael Aufrère Williams to the University of Exeter as a thesis for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in History, June 2008. This thesis is available for Library use on the understanding that it is copyright material and that no quotation from the thesis may be published without proper acknowledgement. I certify that all material in this thesis which is not my own work has been identified and that no material has previously been submitted and approved for the award of a degree by this or any other University. ABSTRACT Roodscreens dividing church chancels and naves, topped with the image of Christ on the cross and often decorated with images of saints, were universal pieces of furnishing in English parish churches between the fourteenth and sixteenth centuries. This thesis centres on such screens in Devon, while seeking to place them in the context of their history in England as a whole. It discusses their origins, the period of their flowering in the later middle ages, and their fate at the Reformation, which swept away their lofts and iconography but kept their basic structures. While the heart of the thesis lies in the period from 1300 to 1570, consideration is also given to their subsequent fate between about 1570 and about 1870, when many disappeared due to changing fashions in church layout and furnishing. It concludes by showing how modern conservation, since 1870, has preserved most of those that remained as well as studying and restoring them. The thesis uses all the available primary and secondary sources for Devon, and major comparative ones for the rest of England. It discusses and criticises the evidence of churchwardens’ accounts, wills, the writings of the Protestant reformers of the mid-sixteenth century, royal and episcopal visitation articles, injunctions and orders for the period during and after the Reformation, antiquarian researches of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, Church faculty records, and conservation reports made on screens in recent decades, as well as the major modern secondary works on the subject beginning with that of A. W. N. Pugin in 1851. Attention has also been given to the screens that survive, and to how they were constructed and decorated. The research shows that considerable sums were spent during the later middle ages on the construction, decoration, and maintenance of screens in all churches, from cathedrals and monasteries to parish churches. Parish communities in particular saw them as status symbols, 2 raised money for their manufacture, and tried to match the best examples in nearby churches. Screens throw light on church layout, since they emphasised the division of the church into two areas, and on the organisation and understanding of worship, which they were designed both to seclude from and to reveal to the congregation. The iconography of screens provides valuable information about the cults of saints in late- medieval parishes. Screens became an issue during the Reformation, which did away with the iconography of screens but usually tolerated their survival, thereby retaining a visual object important to parishioners and the traditional division of the church that the screens embodied. Although some screens may have been removed in the sixteenth century, the greatest period of destruction was probably in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries, when screens clashed with the wish of Church leaders and people to have open church interiors with uninterrupted vistas, and in the mid to late nineteenth century, the period of church restoration when ecclesiological principles were at their most influential. The thesis concludes with a gazetteer of all the screens in Devon churches that survive or are known to have existed on the basis of historical and antiquarian records. 3 TABLE OF CONTENTS Abstract 2 List of Figures 7 Abbreviations 10 Glossary 13 Maps 18 CHAPTER 1. SOURCES AND HISTORIOGRAPHY 21 Original sources 21 Historiography of screens 31 Contextual works 40 The aim of the research 45 CHAPTER 2. THE EMERGENCE AND FUNCTION OF SCREENS 48 Origins 48 Types of churches and screens 50 Screens and the management of the parish church 58 Screens and the liturgy 62 Conclusion 64 CHAPTER 3. THE REFORMATION AND THE SCREENS 66 The origins of Reformation hostility to screens 66 Attitudes affecting screens under Henry VIII (1529-47) 69 Attitudes affecting screens under Edward VI (1547-53) 75 Attitudes affecting screens under Mary I (1553-58) 85 4 Attitudes affecting screens under Elizabeth I (1558-1603) 86 Policies towards screens in Exeter Diocese (1558-1603) 98 CHAPTER 4. CHURCHWARDENS’ ACCOUNTS AND SCREENS 101 Introduction and terminology 101 The financing and making of screens 104 Images 114 Repair and maintenance 115 Imitation 119 Screens and lofts 1547–c.1567 120 CHAPTER 5. THE SCREENS CONSIDERED AS STRUCTURES 128 The elements of screens 128 The construction of a screen 132 Polychromy 135 The carving and decoration of screens 140 Carving and decoration: (i) cornices 141 Carving and decoration: (ii) spandrels 146 Carving and decoration: (iii) dados 150 Carving and decoration: (iv) bay tracery 152 Carving and decoration: (v) parclose screens 155 CHAPTER 6. THE CLASSIFICATION OF SCREENS 177 CHAPTER 7. THE ICONOGRAPHY OF SCREENS 201 The study of screen iconography 201 The iconography of screens: problems of identification 203 Decoration of screen dados before the 5 Reformation 215 Dado painting between the Reformation and the present day 220 The iconography of screens: analysis 222 CHAPTER 8. THE HISTORY OF MEDIEVAL SCREENS FROM c. 1561 TO THE PRESENT DAY 237 The sixteenth and seventeenth centuries 237 The eighteenth century 245 The nineteenth and twentieth centuries 247 Conclusion 253 CHAPTER 9. CONCLUSION 254 APPENDIX 1. Gazetteer 261 APPENDIX 2. Sample of Devon cornices 369 APPENDIX 3. Sample of Devon roodscreen dados 374 APPENDIX 4. Sample of Devon tracery carving 378 APPENDIX 5. Sample of Devon parclose screen carving 381 APPENDIX 6. Index of reports by Anna Hulbert on the polychromy of roodscreens 386 APPENDIX 7. The Stratton contract of 1531 388 APPENDIX 8. Devon roodscreens according to type 393 BIBLIOGRAPHY 396 6 LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1. Map of extant medieval roodscreens in Devon 18 Figure 2. Map of recorded medieval roodscreens in Devon which no longer exist 19 Figure 3 Map of Devon roodscreens according to type: types 4-12 20 Figure 4. Elements of a screen (1) 159 Figure 5. Elements of a screen (2) 160 Figure 6. Elements of a screen (3) 161 Figure 7. Elements of a screen (4) 162 Figure 8. Elements of a screen (5) 163 Figure 9. Roodscreen, late fourteenth century (Welcombe c.1380) 164 Figure 10. Roodscreen, early sixteenth century (Bradninch, not after 1528) 164 Figure 11. Roodloft gallery (Atherington) 165 Figure 12. Dado (Bovey Tracey) 165 Figure 13. Vaulting (Berry Pomeroy) 166 Figure 14. Cornice (Hartland) 166 Figure 15. Coving (Willand) 167 Figure 16. Roodscreen, facing the nave (Nymet Tracey) 168 Figure 17. Roodscreen, facing the chancel (Nymet Tracey) 168 Figure 18. Spandrels (Atherington) 169 Figure 19. Spandrels (Combe Martin) 169 Figure 20. Spandrels (Bridford) 170 Figure 21. Tracery (Type A) 171 Figure 22. Tracery (Type B) 172 Figure 23. Classification of types of roodscreen 173 Figure 24. Tracery (Coldridge) 175 7 Figure 25. Tracery (Colebrooke) 175 Figure 26. Tracery (Holbeton) 176 Figure 27. Parclose screen (Nymet Tracey) 176 Figure 28. Type 1 roodscreen (Braunton) 187 Figure 29. Type 1 roodscreen (Calverleigh) 188 Figure 30. Type 2 roodscreen (Bovey Tracey) 188 Figure 31. Type 2 roodscreen (Broadhempston) 189 Figure 32. Type 3 roodscreen (Stokenham) 189 Figure 33. Type 3 roodscreen (Torbryan) 190 Figure 34. Type 4 roodscreen (Hartland) 190 Figure 35. Type 6 roodscreen (Halberton) 191 Figure 36. Type 12 roodscreen (Swimbridge) 192 Figure 37. Type 12 roodscreen (Pilton) 193 Figure 38. Type 10 (parclose) screen (Kingsbridge) 193 Figure 39. Type 10 roodscreen (Holbeton) 194 Figure 40. Type 11 (parclose) screen (Colebrooke) 194 Figure 41. Type 11 roodscreen (Brushford) 195 Figure 42. Type 5 roodscreen. (Chulmleigh) 195 Figure 43. Type 5 roodscreen (Kentisbeare) 196 Figure 44. Type 7 roodscreen (Dartmouth St Saviour) 196 Figure 45. Type 7 roodscreen (Dartmouth St Saviour) 197 Figure 46. Type 8 roodscreen (Bridford) 197 Figure 47. Type 8 roodscreen (Cheriton Bishop) 198 Figure 48. Type 9 roodscreen spandrels (Lapford) 198 Figure 49. Type 9 roodscreen spandrels (Atherington) 199 Figure 50. Type 9 roodscreen dado (Marwood) 199 Figure 51. Roodscreen (Broadwoodwidger) 200 Figure 52. Dado motifs (Blackawton) 231 Figure 53. Dado motifs (South Pool) 232 Figure 54. Dado figures (Chudleigh) 232 8 Figure 55. Dado figures (Bovey Tracey) 233 Figure 56. Dado figures (Hennock) 234 Figure 57. Dado figure (Whimple) 235 Figure 58. Dado figures (Holne) 236 9 ABBREVIATIONS Antiq. J Antiquaries Journal Arch. Hist. Architectural History Bond and Camm F. B. Bond and D. B. Camm, Roodscreens and Roodlofts, 2 vols (London, 1909) B&GAS Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society CEAC, CCBD The Library of the Church of England Archbishop’s Council, Cathedral and Church Buildings Division CRO Cornwall Record Office, Truro DCNQ Devon and Cornwall Notes and Queries DCRS Devon and Cornwall Record Society DNQ Devon Notes and Queries DRO Devon Record Office, Exeter EDAC Exeter Diocesan Advisory Committee EETS Early English Text Society EHR English Historical Review JBAA Journal of the British Archaeological Association JBS Journal of British Studies JEH Journal of Ecclesiastical History JMH Journal of Medieval History JMRS Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Studies National Archives (K) London, The National Archives, Kew National Archives (I) London, The National Archives, Family History Centre, Islington NDRO North Devon Record Office, Barnstaple NMS Nottingham Medieval Studies ODNB H. C. G. Matthew and B. Harrison (eds), The Oxford 10 Dictionary of National Biography, (Oxford, 2004) OED J.
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