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to be of a date coeval with the Cornish Episcopate, because the 

 See was removed to Crediton in the reign of Canute, and the 

 earliest part of the j)resent fabric is of the middle of the following 

 century. It is in fact the conventual Church of Bishop Leofric, 

 and not the cathedral of King Athelstan. Most probably the 

 beautiful Norman porch and tower arches were erected by Bishop 

 Bartholomew, who was Bishop of Exeter 1161-1184, and whose 

 tomb lies in the Lady-cliaj)el of his cathedral. Dr. Oliver 

 (Monasiicon Dioc. Ex.) tells us that he favoured St. Germans 

 Church so much as to be considered its second " founder." 



Through the kindness of the Earl of St. Germans, the ex- 

 cursionists were permitted to visit the interior of Port Eliot 

 House ; and subsequently, at the Railway Station, the President, 

 gathering the excursionists around him, and producing a large 

 ground plan of St. Germans Church, entered fully into the details 

 of its architectural history. 



Thus terminated the proceedings of a very agreeable and very 

 instructive two-clays' excursion ; all who had shared its pleasures 

 concurring in the hope that the Royal Institutimi of Cornwall will 

 feel encouraged to repeat their attempts to popularize the objects 

 for which it was founded, and assist in the investigation of those 

 relics of by-gone ages with which this county abounds, — often the 

 only history of them which we possess ; and so, by instilling a 

 feeling of reverence for them, in some degree to aid in securing 

 them from injury or destruction. 



