medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture
I would say that both decisions are justified. Remember there are
surviving "bench ends" from the C15/C16, and I would expect flagstones
to be normal by then.
John Briggs
On 21/06/2011 19:00, Madeleine Gray wrote:
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> Just back from a fascinating day with the Experience of Worship project at St Fagans, working on how the later medieval liturgy could have worked in practice in a small Welsh parish church. Two matters for debate cropped up.
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> One is that the church was arranged with benches across the nave: the historical adviser to the project is arguing that by the 1530s the majority of churches in England and Wales were pewed, or at least had benches for the congregation. I'm more familiar with the bench-against-the-wall, rather free-form attitude to the medieval liturgy.
> We also discussed the fact that the church floor has been paved with flag stones (mainly to hide the underfloor heating which is necessary for the custodians in the winter). As a member of the advisory group on the rebuilding of the church I had felt this was a (necessary) compromise: but the historical adviser to the Experience of Worship project suggested that the majority of churches would in fact have been paved by the C16.
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> Do learned list members have any thoughts on either of these issues? I should emphasise that we are talking very late medieval - the church has been decorated with a sequence of paintings dating fonm the 1520s and the liturgical reconstruction is meant to fit with that. We are also working in a country church in Wales, though a church that was open to outside influences as it was on an important pilgrimage route to St David's.
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