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Date taken20-Jul-14 13:56
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The Ranworth Rood Screen

The Ranworth Rood Screen

The greatest Rood screen in East Anglia.
It stretches right across the church, aisles and nave, being built out to form grand reredoses to the aisle chapels. The middle range features the twelve apostles; the south aisle chapel range three Marys and a tremendous St Margaret, the north aisle chapel range St Etheldreda, St Agnes, St John the Baptist and St Barbara.

The north part of the screen is rather curious; the third panel, St John the Baptist, has clearly never been finished; the outlines were never filled in. But the screen was constructed a whole century before the Reformation, so why is this? In addition, St Agnes has been crudely converted into St John the Baptist; she has been given a beard, and her lamb has had a flag on a pole added to it. There was a chapel here dedicated to St John the Baptist, and the obvious conclusion is that the third panel was blocked at some time (but by what?) and the second panel had to serve as the chapel patron.
Finally, we come to the best, and most famous parts of the screen, the sides of the chapel reredoses which face into the nave. On the north side, Bishop St Felix and Martyr St Stephen are joined by one of the great medieval art survivals of the 15th century, St George. Similarly opposite, Archbishop St Thomas of Canterbury and Martyr St Lawrence are joined by a glorious St Michael. The three dragon killers are probably the best single painted 15th century panels in East Anglia.
Who is missing? By rights, the four Latin Doctors, Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory and Jerome should be here - they seem to have been mandatory in east Norfolk. But the Ranworth screen, despite its splendour, is still incomplete; as explored on the introduction to this church, The entire rood and roodloft has been lost; what we see now is merely the bottom two thirds of the original. Probably, the rood loft also had painted panels. Probably, the four Doctors were among them. I wondered who else there was.
The east side of the screen is also painted, Tudor roses on red to the north, on green to the south.
There are misericord seats, mostly modern but a few medieval - but they paled into insignificance against everything else I had seen.