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pulpit and altar from 1856 until 1895, when they were replaced on 
the bridge. 
The four arches between the chancel and north and south chapels 
‘and the one on the west of the south chapel were provided with 
sereens at the same time, and these, whilst being varied in design, 
all exhibit the same feeling as the rood-screen, and the same delicate 
treatment. The two arches on the south of the chancel (one of 
which is made to fit the tomb, so that the first Lord Stourton did 
not live to see his great work completed) and the eastern one on 
the north are completely occupied by the screens, up to the apex, 
whilst the one on the west of the south chapel and the one to the 
organ arch are finished by a horizontal cornice: neither has any 
widening of the top, by vaulting or otherwise. The present top 
| piece of the organ screen is evidently (as the rebate and upper 
moulding show) the lower part of the cornice which terminated it, 
and it was only carried higher by the depth of the cornice—this 
probably indicates the level of the loft for the organ referred to in 
the churchwardens’ book in 1556. 
The entries relating to the organ are given in the Appendix. 
They commence with the blower’s salary of 8d. for the year 
1556-7, and this is continued (varying in amount, but generally 2s. 
a year) until 1591, when it ceases. In 1575 the organ was taken 
down and, presumably, re-erected, for an entry occurs in 1578 for 
repairing it. After 1591 no mention is made of the organ until 
1636, when, in an inventory of Church goods in the hands of the 
churchwardens, we find :— 
“Ty the lofte over the North Ile one payre of old decayed Organes w"" xxxvi 
‘Organe Pypes of the greater sorte in them besides the three Pypes hereafter 
chardged, besides a quantitye of small pypes w™ wer not numbred and were in 
the pype case ”’ ; 
and :— 
in the Treasurye Lofte over the North Porche theise goods Three great Pypes 
of the Organes.” 
_ In 1782 there is an entry of a “Pitchpype for the Singers.” 
Presumably therefore, from nearly the end of the sixteenth century 
onwards there was no organ in use until a new one was set up in 
