Description: Tiny Rowtor Chapel at Birchover is decorated with a profusion of delightful wood carvings. Two years of work transformed a dozen different woods into the remarkable pulpit, richly sculpted with figs, olives, vines, pomegranates and wild animals. It also bears an inscription: 'The Noon Watch was kept in this church and parish 1939-45. Not one life was lost'. The vicar added his personal thanksgiving for the safe return of his two soldier sons and a son-in-law. Elm taken from the vicarage garden supports the pulpit in the form of a strange half-human figure with wings and hooves, the combined likenesses of four creatures which appeared to the Prophet Ezekiel in a vision. (information from www.genuki.org.uk)