Edinglm Church. 



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, lft. 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. J 

 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 o£ 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 <c 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 modem 

 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, 



