Welsh Journals

middle of the nave leading from the nave to the chancel. The base of the screen has been covered by a plain oak panelling of comparatively recent date. The mullions of the screen do not extend to the ground but only to the heavy oak beams which carry them. It was also found that the space below this oak beam is filled by thick oak boarding not planed but roughly edged on its surface. It has traces of lime-wash but none of colour or ornamentation. The coving between the screen and the loft has been recently removed but it is shewn in a print of the interior of the church taken from a drawing made immediately before the re-pewing of the church. A mean soffit of unsuitable form has replaced the coving. One bar of the coving still remains at the north end of the screen. The loft front itself is practically uninjured. It is of very delicate and rich workmanship. Between the mullions are six arches with crocketed spires, and at the top the work is open- pierced. The whole is surmounted by a cornice with rosettes. From traces found on repainting the screen some years ago, it appeared that the screen was richly coloured in red and blue and gold. A pair of very picturesque oak doors or gates were added to the screen, probably in Elizabeth times. On either side of these two doors is fixed or hung a wooden figure holding a shield, one of the shields being adorned with wheat ears on it, the other one plain. These, more probably, belonged to the eastern portion of the screen. The eastern side of the Rood Loft is carried by a plain chamferred oak beam supported at the southern end by a stone corbel. The rood loft was formerly approached by a spiral stairs built against the south wall of the chancel and terminated at the bottom in a circular sweep. An old oak door studded with nails shut off so much of the spiral staircase as was within the wall. When the Chancel was re-roofed so much of the spiral staircase as was not enclosed in the interior of the southern wall, together with the old oak door, was removed and a straight flight of steps was constructed inside the southern wall of the chancel so as to meet a part of the spiral staircase left inside the wall. The entrance to the new part of the staircase was shut by a new door now there, and this door has since been partly blocked by