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Much controversy surrounds the missing Rood Screen which was purported to be one of the finest in Devon If you are not familiar with what a Rood Screen looks like, have a look at my post on South Pool church where the Rood Screen survives. These doors displayed at the rear of the church also formed part of the Rood Screen. The Rood screen and loft were later removed.

The beautifully carved rood screen is from 1906 in traditional Perpendicular style by Herbert Read of The screen stands between the Nave and the Chancel in the tradition of Rood Screens. Originally, Rood Screens had a practical purpose of supporting a mezzanine floor above the Chancel, called the Rood Loft. Original Rood Screens still remain in many Devon churches, notably in the nearby villages of the South

The route follows some beautiful countryside, first through woods and then out into the open with far It boasts a beautifully carved Norman font and a vividly painted 14th-century screen. There is a very good wagon roof, an 18th-century wooden pulpit, and a coat of arms to George II dated The rood screen has to be the ‘star of the show’ and a close inspection will soon reveal that it is of On the back of the screen are six more figures whose identity is unknown.

The second set focus on the artwork in the church, namely the screen paintings and the carved pulpit. Sylvester's, is early 15c with a carved medieval screen and pulpit. The rood screen is unusual in having paintings of Saints in the middle section and arabesques on the Over the nave and aisles the medieval wagon roofs survive,although somewhat restored. St. For a time the two of them clung to the storm tossed bit of wood until the sea took them.

The posts were built to a similar design, with a single monitoring room 15ft below ground, which was This is a nearby public footpath to West Alvington woods , here lined with flowering wild garlic. ursinum, known as wild garlic, ramsons, cowleekes, cows's leek, cowleek, buckrams, broad-leaved garlic, wood Parts of the original wooden carved Rood Screen remain. Once exposed to the outside air it cured and hardened becoming very good for building.

Many screens were also removed but the South Hams has a particularly rich supply of survivors. The medieval rood screen remains, although much "mutilated", as much by time as by efforts at restoration The handsome rood screen would well repay careful restoration. The screens between the chancel and side chapels are called parclose screens. A parclose screen is a screen or railing used to enclose or separate-off a chantry chapel, tomb or manorial

In this photo the most striking feature you can see is the screen, a carved wooden partition that separates Screen. Elsewhere the original parts of the screen clearly display their great age. Part of the purpose of the Rood Screen was to support an upper floor called the Rood Loft, long ago removed The figures painted on the screen panelling include angels with musical instruments in the restored north

Originally it contained no door at ground level but was entered via a ladder to the roof where the main The simple Rood Screen separating the Chancel is early 20th century, while the oak pulpit to the left Osborne the younger, and George Lock of Carisbrooke, labourers, being employed to fetch faggots from a wood

In the submarine room is an actual periscope through which you can see across the base. What you are looking through though is about four floors up, on the roof. This is the main road where the slipway overflows on to the road. The building dates from 1430 and this is the original "wagon" roof, regilded in the mid 19th century. Wooden artefacts too, including this former base of the Rood Screen, called the "Golgotha" with its warning

This is the road to Southpool. We'll see Salcombe at the end of the road. This is the biggest junction on the tidal road. If you have a large screen you can click on the photo for a more detailed view. This is the end of the tidal road to Mill Bay.

there so that I could do a post on my blog about the straw animals traditionally placed on thatched roofs The huge cover over the pub is now gone as the roof has been replaced and the building is now weatherproof thatched section of the pub has it's new thatch in place and the later part of the building has it's slate roof

The Reredos, screen, pulpit and choir stalls were made by Mr Harry Hems of Exeter and the architect The interior includes early screens and the moulded octagonal granite font is dated 1662, but the rest The interior includes early screens and the moulded octagonal granite font is dated 1662, but the rest The C15 rood screen has been removed for repair and is now in storage in the transept; it has 3-light The similar south parclose screen is in situ (seen below) in the east bay of the arcade; both are painted