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 Devon Notes and Queries. 45 ve and rich arabesques below. Over the entrance to the church is sculptured apparently the scene of the Assumption, under the feet of the Virgin a half-moon, on either side a male and female figure, probably intended for John and Joan Greneway. Along the embattled cornice of the south aisle, which Greneway also rebuilt, are panels containing a profusion of trade symbolisms, wool-packs^ tuns, anchors^ roses, monograms, mark, etc., and the buttresses ornamented as the chapel. Within, the chapel, which is of comparatively plain character, is considerably raised from the body of the church, and was separated by a screen from it, access being then, as now, only obtained by the door in the porch, and by several steps, to its floor. Toward the church it opens by two depressed arches with pilastered columns, and is ceiled with a semi-circular stone vault, the surface divided into a series of panelled circles, with short pendants in their cttitres, being the latest form adopted in pointed architec- ture of Perpendicular character. Within the opening of the arches the chapel ^ was originally separated from the aisle by a skreeu, which with the omamentai portions of the Chapel were formerly richly gilt ; on the top were some iron spikes marking the situation, most probably, of figures of saints. Within was much curious sculpture on the wainscotting and stone, behind the seats occupied by the poor men of Grenewaye's alms- booses. The whole of this was destroyed when the Chapel was rebuilt in or about 1830, and enclosed in a niche of modem tracery (then added) are the names of Grenewaye's trustees as they existed at that time." (JDu nsford — Harding'), Around the cornice is this inscription : — '*John Greneway huUt this Chapel Anno Dom' MDXVII, the Porch, AiUf and Ends of the same, and an AlmsJiouse at the East end of the Town for V poor men^ and finished the same XII years before (his death) and was interred underneath with his Wife"