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52 Devon Notes and Queries. Ottery) with pendants at the intersections wherein stand angels with wings elevated supporting shields charged with the instruments of the Passion, the Five Wounds, Lane*s Mark^ a fulling apparatus, etc., and it springs from corbels having angels bearing scrolls and trade symbols. Between the windows are brackets, on which formerly stood figures. The arches, which rise to the roof, have partly continuous mould- ings, and pilasters with carved capitals at the angles ; on the side toward the church they are strengthened in support of the vault by staged buttresses, ornamented with small recessed niches containing figures standing on pedestals, the two easternmost had screens within them, probably of stone, and so to have partially separated the Chapel from the church. The gravestone of the Founder and his wife is at the east end, in the centre immediately in front ^c> % "c €5r, — ' «-. ^ — y

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