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Years ago, I visited all but one of the 600+ churches in Devon. An interesting (and surprising) experience, but in particular, the quality and variety of the Devon medieval rood screens stood out. Many of these beautiful screens still stand in Devon but unfortunately, a large number have lost their original figurative paintings. Web searches show that Devon rood screen figures are not well represented on the internet. A shame. So this website now provides a visual record of these figurative medieval Devon screens. There are just over 40 of these screens left.

The symbolism of some of the screen figures is sometimes unclear. This website has largely followed the Bond and Bede interpretations. But there are other possibilities.

Richard Knights

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Most images in this website have been processed as follows:
All the figures in the church view are displayed in order from the North to the South side of the screen as viewed from the nave. They follow a numerical order. So figure 01 is the most northerly figure when looking at the screen from the nave ...

An example from part of the Alphington screen - left is north:
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