St Michael and All Angels is the

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parish church of

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in the county of

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It stands about a kilometre south-west of the village in the midst of a plantation of trees. Particularly notable for its surviving paintings, the church is listed with Grade I.

Architecture and Decor

The building was at first constructed in rather an undistinguished

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style, possessing a tower at the west end of the church. The church is best known for the twelve panels of its late-Gothic

rood screen The rood screen (also choir screen, chancel screen, or jubé) is a common feature in late medieval church architecture. It is typically an ornate partition between the chancel and nave, of more or less open tracery constructed of wood, stone, o ...

, rivalled in quality only by the rood screen of St. Helen's Church in Ranworth. The twelve panels, probably from between 1440 and 1450, appear to have been influenced by Flemish work, and depict St. Apollonia, St. Zita, St. Barbara, and the nine choirs of angels. (The representations of the

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and the

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were defaced during the

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, most likely due to their inclusion of “papistical” symbols such as the

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and a

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). In the South

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there are more recent (ca. 1490) representations of King Henry VI, St. Edmund, St. Edward the Confessor, and St. Olaf. The church holds a

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built in 1835 by T.C. Bates. The single-manual instrument has 5 registers (C-g³: Open Diapason 8', Clarabella 8', Stopt Diapason Bass 8', Principal 4', Flute 4').Information a
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Bibliography

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: ''England’s Thousand Best Churches''. Allen Lane – The Penguin Press, 1999, S. 444, . * Peter Sager: ''Ostengland''. DuMont Kunst-Reiseführer, Köln 1990: DuMont Buchverlag, S. 412 mit Farbabb., .

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Hi-res images of Barton Turf Rood Screen

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