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The Sanctuary |
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The SANCTUARY has a shell-like piscina in the south wall, found hidden during the 1875 alterations. That year too, Minton tiles replaced the white Woolpit brick flooring. The Bath stone REREDOS was erected in 1879; it has nine panels with moulded mullions and cusped heads, as around the piscina. Roundels symbolising St Peter and St Edmund and a copy of the Consecration Cross (East end outside) were added in 1997. The EAST WINDOW, (Ward & Hughes), shows the Good Shepherd and was inserted in 1875 by the Hon Mrs Mills. The mullions and tracery are exact copies of the original. The two side windows were destroyed by enemy action during the last war. They depicted the aged Simeon taking the infant Jesus into his arms and the raising from the dead of Jairus' daughter. The brass crucifix was given in 1898 replacing another given in 1867. Until the Victorian alterations, the Ten Commandments on zinc were fixed to the east wall. They were repainted in 1778 for £8 10s 9d. The triptych is an 1875 copy of an original in Cologne cathedral showing
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