Rood

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1960s Painted figure of Christ on the cross, between Mary and John, set over the rood screen. medium: wood technique: painted designer: Stephen Dykes-Bower Church of St Elvan, Aberdare, Rhondda Cynon Taff chancel arch The rood was added at the time of the reordering of the church by Stephen Dykes-Bower. As well as restoring the screen, by William Tate, Dykes-Bower, transformed the chancel into a Lady Chapel and brought the high altar into the nave, in front of the screen. The chancel ceiling was also painted at this time, creating an effect more in keeping with the Anglo-Catholic Comperesque vision of the late nineteenth or early twentieth century than of the 1960s.  (ObjectID=652 ImageID=8548) Original File Name=Aberdare_DSC8530A.jpg

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• Crucified Christ with Mary and John on either side of the cross; Holy Rood  [John 19:25-27]

John Newman, The Buildings of Wales: Glamorgan (London/Cardiff: 1995), p. 133.

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