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Title: Transactions of the Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society. cn
Subjects: Bristol and Gloucestershire Archaeological Society
Publisher: Bristol, Eng. : The Society
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es:— £ 1521. 1522, For a paper to draw a draft of the Rode-loft For. the making of the Endentur and the Oblygacyon for the Kervar To John Sheppard of Walfarshill 18 To the Kervar at Willya Jervys house ... 23 For Brede and Ale for men to take down the rodelofteFor making of the scaffet (scaffold) to the Kervers men, for to peynte the Hy Cross 14 To Robt. Hoptyn for gylting in the Rode lofte, and for steyning of the clothe afore the Rode lofte ... 5 0 0The holes for the insertion of the rood beam were to be seen in thesides of the arch till the beginning of the last century. The angel above1 Fijzured in the Transactions, Vol. xxiii., 89. JBanwell. 23 the chancel arch probably held a chain to support the Hy Cross orCrucifix which stood on the rood beam. Robert Hoptyns colouringprobably remained till 1805, when the screen was again decorated inaccordance with the original colouring; it was repaired and decoratedas we now see it about 1865. The entrance to the rood-loft is in the north
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W. Moline, Photo. SCREEN FROM THE CHANCEL, BANWELL. aisle, and staircases in the turrets give access to the lead roofs. A hagio-scope from the south aisle was blocked up about 1865. The altar-piecewas erected in 1828, and the altar (not a table) dates from the same period.Passing to the vestry, the ancient door with its clenched nails, and thepanelled ceiling should be noticed; the old Flemish glass was insertedabout half a century ago. The east window represents the marriage ofTobias and Sara, and their return to Tobit. In the north window thesubjects are: Tobits almsgiving and blindness; the conversion of St.Paul, and the woman taken in adultery; Manoahs sacrifice, and a figure,possibly Moses. Of the vicars whose portraits are in the vestry, Dr. Samuel Lee beganlife as a carpenter near Shrewsbury, and became Professor of Hebrew atCambridge. The Rev. W. H. Turner was a son of the Rev. Joseph Turnerto whose care William Pitt was committed by the Earl of Chatham whenhe went to Cambridg

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