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Brannock Rooms while restoration work went ahead. Following the
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covered by a fine roof enriched with fifteenth century bosses". It also boasts an early Norman font, a
Jacobean pulpit, and fourteenth-century carved wooden pews, which are listed. A series of 16th-century chestnut pew ends are of carved woodwork; one has a likeness of St Brannoc with a cow,
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testament to a tale surrounding him that a neighbour stole his cow, slaughtered it, put it into a stewing pot, and upon shouting the cow's name, Brannoc brought his cow back to life, reassembling it on the spot.
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that has been re-used), hinged so that both sides are visible. The church is reportedly haunted.
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