One final trip to Dorset. A last few finishing touches.
There's a fair bit of Devon oak gone into restoring this screen. Then there's the internal windowsills.
The ledge doors with rosehead nails.
New treads for the stairs.
Some people call it Devon, some call it Exeter, whatever......it's my favourite carving style.
For me, it goes from 1480-ish through to 1700-ish. Tudors and Stuarts from Henry and Henry, through to William and Mary. She died of smallpox in 1694, he in 1702, after a fall from his horse. For all the harm they caused and all the good they failed to do, a lot of the carving in Devon's churches survived. 550 years, 22 generations and here am I trying to connect with those carvers of Devon, by carving what they carved.
It's a lot of hard graft, for which they may have been paid very little. Oh joy!
And the carpentry.
Just getting down to the ground on this one took forever. Then the fun carving started.
