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From: Jim Bugslag <[log in to unmask]>
> From Aymer Vallance, Greater English Church Screens (London, 1947), pp.
41-2: Although he principally refers to the it as the pulpitum, he also uses
the term, "the Rood", and cites an entry in the sacrist's rolls of 1359-60,
where it is called the Black Rood, "le blackerode".
thanks, but i'm not really concerned with what a modren author calls it.
and even the 14th c. texts don't suit my obscure purposes --by that date it
would seem that any jubé with a pulpit on it could have been called a
_pulpitum_.
or, in the Perverse English Manner, a "Rood".
The pulpitum occupied the whole of the first bay of the
nave below the octagon. Its west face, therefore, was at the first pair of
piers west of the octagon,
now, *that* structure is *much* more interesting than any smelly pulpit.
http://ariadne.org/cc/towers/ely/hewett-ely.html
quite extraordinary.
makes one wonder what the middlevils could have done, had they actually set
their minds to it.
>St John Hope [_Archaeologia_, vol. lxviii (1917)] suggests that this screen
was set up, most probably by about 1150, i.e. in the early years of the
episcopate of Bishop Nigellus, which began in 1133.
apparently the 1133 date is not based on any datable text, then.
>The sketches survive in the British Library, Add. MS 6768, pp. 122, 123, 124,
for details entitled "The Old Roodloft at Ely" and 6772, bottom corner of
verso opposite p. 195, a rough unnamed pencil sketch of the greater part of
the elevation.
i don't seem to have this source to hand.
> Vallance gives more of Essex's description, as well, but this explains the
1133 date,
not really, far as i can see.
>and for more, St John Hope's article seems to be the place to go.
thanks, Jim.
c
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