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.

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

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

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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.

Around 700 of the rood screen fragments unearthed still had traces of paint. These traces will now provide researchers with more information about the paint that was believed to be on all ...

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.

360° Staffordshire: Saint Giles Roman Catholic Church in 360 ... A Crucifixion scene rises above the Rood Screen, with statues of Our Lady and St John on either side of the cross.

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 ...