The doors of the north porch date from the building of the church. Defacement has left the figures difficult to identify but it would seem that in the lower row, under the sheltering canopies, the central places are filled by the Crowned Christ and Virgin, with the Four Evangelists grouped on either side.
Above are four pairs of figures representing
(left to right):
The tops of these large doors had to be cut early in the seventeenth century
when the
floor of a gallery built at the west end of the church came below the apex of
the doorway.
This can be seen quite clearly in the photograph.
"
The Salutation" - with hands meeting in the panel
rims; St
Catherine with crown, sword and book; St Margaret transfixing the dragon with
her spear;
King Henry VII, the reigning monarch when the church was built, with the Lady
Margaret
Beaufort, his mother; Constantine, the first Christian Emperor, with St Helena,
his
mother.