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consecration crosses, which everywhere else are placed against the 
centre of the part of the building to which each refers, are cut here 
on one side. 
Behind the altar is a piece of Jacobean oak work, which it is 
generally supposed was the chimney-piece of a secular building, but 
I see no reason to suppose that it was not made for its present 
position. 
The rood-screen has been described as “a large rood-loft, with an 
incongruous wooden screen beneath it;” but in my judgment it 
deserves a much better character. It stands on a plinth of stone, 
which indicates the original floor-level, 1ft, 2in. below the present 
pavement of the chancel. [The original level of the chancel floor 
has since been restored by Mr. S. Watson Taylor, the lay rector. ] 
The screen itself is filled with plain panels below the middle hori- 
zontal] rail, and the grooves in the mullions of the upper part indicate 
that there were solid panels here also, behind the existing traceried. 
heads; thus, with the exception of the open framing of the upper 
half of the doors, the screen entirely shut out a view of the chancel 
from the nave. The doorway has a four-centred arch, supported by 
shafts with carved capitals, on the jambs; above this framing is a 
panelled cove of slight projection, with moulded ribs, and bosses 
planted on at the intersections; these are again framed into a 
moulded front beam supported by carved brackets at the ends. The 
loft over this is 7ft. wide; the eastern face of it is supported on a 
carved beam, on the underside of which are mortises for the ribs of 
a second cove, and also “ housings ” at the ends for similar brackets 
to those under the west beam. It becomes clear on looking into it 
that under the loft there was a double row of stalls facing east, and 
that the eastern cove was framed at its lower edge into an inner 
beam, and probably a second screen forming the back of the front 
row of stalls. They appear to have been removed since the modern 
painting was done, and their height is clearly traceable. 
The framing of the loft consists of moulded mullions carried up 
from the front beams to upper beams, which are also moulded and 
had carving inserted; between these are solid panels, on which are 
painted in black letters of Edward IV. character, on a white ground, 
