Rood Screen Stairs - St Andrew , Winston, Suffolk, IP14 6LG - Stone Church Artefacts on Waymarking.com

The parish church of St.Andrew is a Grade II* listed building. It is Medieval with a restoration of c.1880 and consists of a nave, a chancel, a west tower, and a south porch. Built of mainly plastered flint rubble to the nave and a flushed C19th flint facing to the chancel with freestone dressings. The tower is of flint rubble with extensive crude dressings of pink/buff brick which is an unusual feature for this early date (probably early C15th). Apart from the belfry windows which are ashlar and Y-tracery, the tower would have been entirely plastered. There is a good early C16th porch of red brick with crowstepping, polygonal buttresses, and moulded and labelled doorway with three image niches above, moulded rafters with an arch-braced ridge-piece only.

The stairs from the north side of the nave lead to the rood loft which, in Medieval times would have carried the Great Rood or 'Christ Crucified', a large carved figure of Christ on the cross, it would normally have been supported by statues of saints, The Virgin Mary and St.John were favourites. The word rood is derived from the Saxon word rood or rode, meaning "cross" or "crucifix". The rood screen (also known as the choir screen, chancel screen, or jube) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture and is typically an ornate partition between the chancel and nave, (between the laity and the clergy) of more or less open tracery constructed of wood, stone, or wrought iron. None of the screen remains here but the stair entrance with simple two-panel timber door, the stairs and the opening which lead onto the rood are all present.

For more information see Wikipedia, 'Rood screen'.

The co-ordinates are for the south porch.

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