Of Angels and Riddleposts and Buckfast

The angels on top of the riddleposts are such a lovely feature of the "English Altar", I saw them yesterday on top a dossal at Buckfast Abbey yesterday and remembered that they usee to mount the tops of the riddle posts there at one time too.

The riddlescreens add such dignity to the altar and seem to help with notion of vesting it.  The current arrangment is still good and multifunctional, I suppose, but the Englishness is  gone and it seems somewhat bare now.