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13a Ranworth (Norfolk), Church of St. Helen, the 15th-century painted
screen is one of the best preserved of Norfolk examples. Typical
of decorated screens of the 15th century, Ranworth’s shows a series of
painted saints framed by wooden arched moldings. Their order is carefully
hierarchical. The Apostles appear in the base in the center; selected
male saints on either side (two warriors, two bishops, and two deacons),
on the left and right, with altars below them, are female saints.
(Eamon Duffy, Stripping of the Altars [New Haven, 1992], 158, 181-183,
pls. 74, 108-9). The south group of four women with their children
is the “Holy Kindred,” the extended family of Jesus: the Virgin Mary, her
sisters Mary Salome and Mary Cleophas and St. Margaret, patron saint of
childbirth.
13c Ranworth (Norfolk), Church of St. Helen, detail of St. Barbara. |