Roodscreens and roodlofts . south chapel— 1. St. Joan of Valois. 2. (?) St. Agatha. 3. St. Barbara. 4. St. Helen. On the doors— 1. Female saint. 2. St. Apollonia. 3. St. Veronica. 4. Female saint. Repainted. Then- Male saint. St. Leonard (crozier and fitters). (?) St. Petronilla (with broom). (?) St. Olave. St. Paul of Constantinople (very unlike). Screen across south transept, from east— The doors with three panels are gone :Then— St. Lily Blessed Virgin. ; St. John the Baptist The An-nunciation. On west face from the north— 1. An ecclesiastic. 2.
Roodscreens and roodlofts . south chapel— 1. St. Joan of Valois. 2. (?) St. Agatha. 3. St. Barbara. 4. St. Helen. On the doors— 1. Female saint. 2. St. Apollonia. 3. St. Veronica. 4. Female saint. Repainted. Then- Male saint. St. Leonard (crozier and fitters). (?) St. Petronilla (with broom). (?) St. Olave. St. Paul of Constantinople (very unlike). Screen across south transept, from east— The doors with three panels are gone :Then— St. Lily Blessed Virgin. ; St. John the Baptist The An-nunciation. On west face from the north— 1. An ecclesiastic. 2. Male figure (not a Cardinal as Keyser states). 3. St. George. 4. An Archbishop. 5. Probably St. Leonard (Keyser says St. Erasmus). C. E. Keysers Archeeologia, LVI ; Monograph on the screen at WolboroughChurch in Exeter Dioc. Arch. Trans., 1854, p. 42 ; ibid., 1901, pp. 30, 31 ; Murrays Handbook to Devonshire ; C. Worthys Devonshire Parishes, II, p. 125 ;S. Kensington list. PLATE CXIIIa TYPE OF PARCLOSE SCKEEXVVORK. Gu TAKD SCREENWORK IN THE COUNTY OF DEVON 365 WOODBURY (St. Swithin). There are some remains of an ancient Perpendicular roodscreen,but so altered that the original design is entirely destroyed. The screen was standing in itsoriginal condition until 1847, and above it was a tympanum of lath and plaster, which hadapparently existed there since the Reformation, and this entirely filled the chancel arch. Duringits removal in 1848 it was found that the Ten Commandments had been painted upon it at noless than three different times. The incumbent (Rev. J. L. Fulford) took it down becausehe thought it prevented his voice being heard. In 1862 he modernised the screen, taking outthe old tracery, raising the lights about eighteen inches, and inserting foliations in the archedopenings. He cleared away the old enrichments which had been planted on the west face of thescreen between the lights, and pierced the spandrels, repainting the screen in imitation of som
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