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Quoting from the Church Guidebook, "The interior before the Reformation must have looked magnificent. Our church buidings at this time were full of pictures, carvings and symbols, which served as visual aids to portray the Faith to the ordinary folk, who could not read and were not Latin scholars. We can imagine this interior with windows radiant with midieval glass, walls displaying mural paintings, the heavenly host of hovering angels peering down from the roof and, above its richly painted screen and loft, the great Rood, showing Christ crucified, ....
With the Reformation in the 16th century came changes in worship and the use of English in place of Latin lessened the need for visual aids. The decor of the interior was altered to cater for the new liturgical needs. Some of the coulor and carving was destroyed in the mid 16th century and a great deal more was defaced and demolished during the 1640s by the Puritans, who were determined to rid our churches of so-called "superstitious images and inscriptions."
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