Pulpit

An unusual pulpit at St. Mary's, Totnes, now St. Mary with Bridgetown to economize on parsons.

I should have taken a more careful look to see how the stairs worked. From this snap there does not seem to be room for a full on spiral staircase, despite the start of one visible bottom right.

Statues in niches removed at some point, presumably at some point in the religious troubles in and around the Reformation. I think there was also an elaborate open-work screen to the cancel, in something of the same style, also with empty niches, rather smaller. I suppose we should be grateful that the zealots concerned were satisfied by removing the images and did not feel the need to destroy the container. And in extremis, satisfying themselves by just knocking the faces off, defacing the images.

But see reference 1 for another take on this, from Ely.

Reference 1: http://psmv2.blogspot.co.uk/2015/12/ely-5.html.

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