North Porch 

nporchThe porch was restored in 1965, mainly through an anonymous gift. The niches were replaced with exact copies of the originals which may have had figures in them prior to the Reformation, but there is no record to confirm this.

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 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.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. 
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