Chancel Screen

This screen is used to separate the nave, the public part of the church, from the chancel, which is the priest’s part of the church. Sections of this screen were originally used in the monastery church and date from the early 15th century. What we see today still has traces of medieval paint and gilding which is thought to have been undertaken by the monk Simon de Eresby in 1413. On the screen are carvings of angels, dragons, flowers, fish and also St Guthlac in his boat.