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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 church, renowned for its East Anglian flintwork, offers a glimpse into history with its carved and decorated angels in the roof, a font cover, and a medieval rood screen featuring paintings.
By the early Middle Ages, in the West, the rood screen — a wooden screen surmounted by a crucifix — was serving the same purpose as the iconostasis in the East.
It depicts a man paddling a little boat with a small dog looking out over the prow. Known as the “Pacificus Wind Vane”, it commemorates the local legend of a devoted monk of St Benet’s Abbey in the ...
The west choir with the famous portrait statues of the twelve cathedral founders and the west rood screen are the masterpieces of pan-European workshop accordingly named the “Naumburg Master”, who ...
Toms River, N.J., is poised to use eminent domain to raze an Episcopal church to build a park. The church had wanted to set up a 17-bed shelter.
Lifestyle Welsh Homes Property Auctions This is what £20k potentially gets you at a property auction Packed with character in an idyllic location this former church ...
The church attracts 50,000 visitors a year to admire its rare full width 15th century rood screen, Kempe stained glass window, 19th century Willis organ and restored oak wagon roof. As well as ...
As well as a beautiful rood screen dating back to the 1500s, the church has a Tudor font and its tower houses a rare example of a turret clock that some people find annoying.
St Teilo's stood for centuries at Llandeilo Tal-y-bont, Pontarddulais, near Llanelli, and featured medieval fittings such as a rood screen and loft. Other original features, including altars and a ...
The property on Church Road, Brynteg is up for sale with Monopoly Buy Sell Rent for £400,000. The "exceptional" four-bedroom home has been converted from its use as a former church and still ...
Restoration work to refurbish the rood screen at St Mary's Church in North Elmham has seen one of Norfolk's finest medieval rood screens returned to its former glory.