Archaeologists in Paris just made an astounding discovery beneath the stone floor of Notre Dame. They were excavating the floor as a precautionary measure before construction workers installed ...

The rood screen at Notre Dame served two purposes, says architectural historian Mathieu Lours. The first was to give priests a platform to read scripture to the public who assembled in the nave.

A Roman Catholic fireman saved the nave of the church by training his fire hose on the rood screen, thus forming a wall of water between the chancel and the nave, March 13, 2014 in Houston on ...

Dozens of people visited a Norwich church at the weekend to celebrate the centenary of its most famous feature.

AN EXAMINATION of cracked plaster high on a church wall led to the discovery of a spiral staircase that once led to a medieval rood loft. The investigation at the 15th-century St Peter’s, Knowstone, ...

An English church with a rood screen (Photo: Courtesy of Father Dwight Longenecker) The demarcation of three distinct worship spaces — the nave, ...

MARIETTA — St. Luke’s Episcopal Church was originally at the corner of Fourth and Scammel streets when the church building was built in 1833. ... including the addition of a rood screen.

THIEVES have hacked away and stolen two rare 15th-century panels from an oak rood-screen, and badly damaged a third. The attack on Holy Trinity, Torbryan, an isolated church near Newton Abbott, in ...

The timber for the rood screen - which Mr Smith described as a carved oak screen separating the nave from the chancel - was sourced from Radnorshire. He researched the history of St Teilo, the patron ...

A project to save a 14th century rood screen from being overrun by dirt at St Mary's Church in North Elmham, near Dereham, has been successfully completed.

A large crucifix of Jesus on the rood screen at St Giles’ Church in Sidbury was badly damaged. Comments. News. Rom Preston-Ellis Assistant News Editor. 11:24, 30 Mar 2018 Updated 11:25, 30 Mar 2018.

Thieves steal 'priceless' medieval wooden panels from Devon church. The ornate 15th century artifacts vividly depicted saints in "the best preserved medieval rood screen in the country" ...