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The Chancel - 1270 to 1310
The Chancel Rood Screen consists of three parts, above the base are slender bonded shafts with rounded capitals which suggests that this is one of the rare examples of a late 13th century screen, the upper tracery and embattled beam is bath century work. looking down we see the carpet partly covers a Purbeck marble slab, over three meters in length and placed centrally on the floor of the Chancel, and having on it the matrix of a large cross, commemorates the Rector (Roger de Marlowe) in whose time the present Chancel was completed
The mullions in the large East window are unusual in that on either side of the central light these are carried up to the head of the arch. The shield towards the top of the window is that of Piers Gaveston, Edward 2nd's favourite, who was made Lord of the Upper Manor and given the gift of the living shortly after being made Earl of Cornwall in 1307. It was recorded by Ashmole when he visited the church in 1665 that this window contained shields of the King, the Prince of Wales and Edmund, Earl of Cornwall
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