Roodscreens and roodlofts . t doesnot appear to have ever been continuous, but may nevertheless have been designed asa cresting. The pulpit is noteworthy as being a careful reconstruction of the ancient one, destroyed in1865, under Ash worth. The old work has an artistic value second to none in the country, andthe carver has successfully caught the spirit of the ancient work in the reproduction of themissing portions (Plate LXXVIIIa). Rev. W. P. S. Bingham, Exeter Dioc. Arch. Soc. Travis., Vol. I, Part II (1896),p. 108, 2nd series ; C. E. Keyser, pp. 33, 34 ; Olivers Eccl. Antiq. of Devon, I,p
Roodscreens and roodlofts . t doesnot appear to have ever been continuous, but may nevertheless have been designed asa cresting. The pulpit is noteworthy as being a careful reconstruction of the ancient one, destroyed in1865, under Ash worth. The old work has an artistic value second to none in the country, andthe carver has successfully caught the spirit of the ancient work in the reproduction of themissing portions (Plate LXXVIIIa). Rev. W. P. S. Bingham, Exeter Dioc. Arch. Soc. Travis., Vol. I, Part II (1896),p. 108, 2nd series ; C. E. Keyser, pp. 33, 34 ; Olivers Eccl. Antiq. of Devon, I,pp. 14-16; Murrays Handbook to Devon, Polwheles History of Devon,II, p. 165 ; S. Baring Goulds Book of the West, I, 78 ; Gentlemans Magazine,1834, I, 394-399. Remains of one or two old bench-ends, with other carving of an interesting nature arepreserved in the north chapel of the chancel. The reredos is a fine piece of work, with elaborate sculpture and tabernacle work, of Germancharacter, by Kemp. PLATE CII PARCLOSE SCREENS. (A) Feniton
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