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Heavitree St Michael's has been extensively rebuilt during the 19th century. A rather nice city church. There remains some fragments of the old screen forming until recently a tower screen, but the hand of the vandal has spared only a few of the lower pane which still retain some figures of sibyls.

The paintings probably date from just before the Reformation. Only ten panels have survived. There are 2 saints and 8 sibyls, the latter of which wear quite elaborate dresses with veils.


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01: St Agatha, St Lucy

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02: Delphica, Hellespontina

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03: Sibyl, Cumana

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04: Cimmeria, Agrippa

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05: Erythrea, Samia



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