Parish Churches, Chapels (2)

Abstract

Investment in churches did not cease in 1530. Pulpits and benches were still bought: the bench-ends at Dowland and Lewannick, for example, are dated by inscriptions to 1546. The continuing erection of screens is indicated by renaissance motifs, and occasionally by inscribed or documented dates: those at East Allington, Modbury and Throwleigh are from 1544–7. Apart, however, from some possibly Marian structures, as at Lustleigh, few screens are attributable to after 1547. Expenditure on stained glass also plunged. In the St Neot windows, the latest of the inscribed dates is 1529.¹