NOTES ON MOORLAND CHURCHES. 191 
On the north wall of the chancel is a tablet with this inscrip- 
tion > “ Here lyeth y® body of Thomas Parr, Rector of this parish 
29 years, who was buried January y® 12th, 1733; and at his death 
gave five pounds to y® poor day labourers of this parish; and like- 
wise three pounds yearly for y® education of poor children of y® 
said parish for ever, to be paid out of y® estates lying in Higher 
Langdon, after our life.” One would think that £3 yearly would not 
go very far towards ‘‘ y® education of y® poor children of y¢ parish;” 
but then there are no great multitudes of children in moorland 
districts, and possibly their education, a hundred and forty years 
ago, was even more elementary than it is now under the new act. 
In the north chancel aisle windows at North Bovey are remains of 
ancient painted glass, including the emblems of the four Evangelists. 
Scarcely inferior to the situation of Buckland is that of Manaton 
Church and village, rocks, woods, and rugged tors contributing to 
the wildness, and even grandeur, of the scenery. The church is a 
handsome Perpendicular structure, showing no signs of an earlier 
foundation, and consisting of nave, of three bays with four centred 
granite arches and piers, north and south aisles, and chancel. The 
rood screen is even finer here than at North Bovey, and retains its 
original colouring and gilding, now toned down and producing an 
exceedingly rich effect. May it never suffer the misfortune of re- 
painting, or so-called restoration. In the panels are portraitures of 
saints and bishops, disfigured, it is said, by the stabs of Cromwell’s 
soldiers. Likely enough, however, a good deal is put down to 
Cromwell’s men that more justly may be attributed to the Vandalism 
of post-reformation Churchmen. 
The roofs were originally all of the waggon kind, and the nave 
roof is a rather fine example. The south aisle roof has been ceiled 
perfectly flat and. plain, like a workhouse corridor. In the north 
chancel aisle are three original oak benches of 15th century work, 
and of curious form. The south porch is exceedingly handsome, 
with a fine groined roof and parvise over. Externally this porch, 
and the rood staircase, and the south aisle, are surrounded by em- 
battled parapets. The tower, 20 feet square, rises to the height 
of 90 feet, and is of good proportions, in three stages. At the top 
are battlements and pinnacles. 
Of all the churches in this border Manaton is perhaps the best 
built, though not the most interesting archeologically. 
In the churchyard, at the eastern end, and on the south side 
