Section of altar screen
Category
Architecture / Features & Decoration
Date
1300 - 1400
Materials
Chalk
Measurements
24.8 cm (h)28.5 cm (w)9.5 cm (d)
Collection
Bodiam Castle, East Sussex
NT 67604
Summary
Largest surviving part of reticulated altar screen. Chalk 14th century. Right hand side with half point linked to adjacent trefoiled point and hollow chamfered base and side.** Note from Catalogue of Finds from Bodiam Castle by David Martin " Sc.4. Section of tracery from a screen, in soft chalky clunch, one surface heavily damaged and badly weathered, the other surviving in good condition. Sufficient remains of the damaged surface to indicate that both faces were of near identical design. The fragment represents one end of a traceried panel, formerly set within a square frame. Lime mortar adhering to the side of the frame shows the tracery to have been bedded into position. The ogee-headed arch of one light survives complete, together with the stump of the similar head to the adjacent light. The spandrels on either side of the head are filled with open tracery and the leading edges of both the arch and the spandrels are hollow chamfered. It is noticeable that the hollow chamfers on the damaged face of the panel are slightly narrower than those on the good face. In all instances the hollow chamfers are enriched with cusping, thereby giving a cinquefoil head to the light, an open trefoil panel in the top corner, and either a cinquefoil or sexfoil to the open tracery between the two lights. Measurements 217mm long x 239 mm high x 83-90 mm wide."