Rood Screen at St Mary's Church

Rood Screen at St Mary's Church

Rood Screen in St Mary's Church.

The story of the present Chancel Screen is well known. Thrown out at the Restoration of 1861 ( no written record of its actual position then — an important omission), it finished up in a builder’s yard in Derby, but the Vicar of St. Peter’s rescued it and re-erected it in his Church where Cox, (a famous Church historian), recognising it as the Crich Screen, got it sent back to Crich where it was re-erected by a local family, the Roe Smiths, as a memorial to their sons Norman and Henry Victor safely returned after the 1914-18 War.