46 Devon Notes mid Queries. RisdoD gives the following as then found therein : —
- To the honour of St. Christopher, St. Blaize^ and St. Anne,
This Chapel by John Greneway was began.'* Bishop Blaize was the patron saint of the wool -combers. The chapel, which probably was getting dilapidated, appears to have been nearly rebuilt, 1820-30, and although some of its features naturally disappeared, yet altogether it was favourably reinstated. The screen dividing it from the aisle within was^ we believe, preserved and set up afresh in Powderham Church. Dunsford also mentions these inscriptions as being seen ODr the chapel: —
- God speed our waye, — Pray for the soul of John Greenwaye.
and
- O that the Lord mayc, — Grant unto John Grenwaye,
Good fortune and grace, — And in heaven a place. This is still found incised on the chapel outside. The Founder and his wife were interred near the centre of the chapel, in front of the altar at its east end, the vault being immediately below their gravestone. Dunsford records: — " In the year 1776 I went down into it, through a hole in the floor of the seats by the wall, and found a skull and some other human bones and dust, under the arch that supports the front wall, but nothing besides to afford us any information. These supposed remains of the Founders were, some little time after, put into a lead chest by order of the church- warden, and an inscription, in brass, laid on it. The vault about eight feet square was lined with brown glazed tiles.*' The gravestone of the Founder and his wife of Purbeck marble and large dimensions, is in the centre of the chapel,^ and originally very handsome. In the centre are their effigies of considerable size, the Merchant in long fur-lined robe with collar and full sleeves (probably the Drapers' livery) a gypciere^ or penner and inkhorn suspended from his girdle, hands raised in prayer, his feet in a parterre of flowers. His wife with embroidered pedimental head-dress, gown, sleeves with deep fur ciifl's, rings on her fingers, a rich girdle fastened with three jewelled ornaments, from which depends a chain with pomander and jewel, her hands raised in prayer. Below their feet were three shields; of these only one remains,.
