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Best painted rood screen in Cornwall of early 16thcentury date. Surviving panels restored more than once, but unusually high quality – like Flemish paintings with landscape backdrops – not usual stock figures. Thirteen survive starting with an exquisite Risen Christ dressed in green, holding an orb. He has a beard but no moustache - a fashion feature found on painted Cornish screens. Next comes King Henry VI with his white hart, a saint in waiting whose hopes were dashed when King Henry VIII married Anne Boleyn. On the south chapel door is a Visitation (SS Mary and Elizabeth), and St Ursula. Then Four doctors of the Church – Pope Gregory, St Jerome, St Ambrose and St Augustine and finally four female saints: St Apollonia, St Sitha (patroness of domestic servants so shown with her bunch of keys), St Dorothy and St Barbara, see Poundstock.
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Village church next to Court Barton manor house. A wonderful collection of art and wood carving from 16th and 17th centuries including: