MYLOR CHURCH; ITS CROSSES, FRESCOES, &C. 167 



Some portions of the oak Roodscreen (15tli Century) have 

 been preserved, through having been used in the construction of 

 the Eeading-desk, and to form Avall-plates, wedges, joists, and 

 sleepers for the roof, gallery, and new floors. Its carving is 

 enriched with gold and colours, portraits of saints, &c., and in- 

 scriptions. On one part Mr. Murray has read the Cornish words 

 " Carws Adonai Gesu Grist," signifying " The Grace (or Love) of 

 our Lord Jesus Christ." A fragment of an Angel's wing, carved 

 in wood and gilded, was found in the roodloft stairs, and a small 

 piece of stained glass * (white, black, and yellow). Two stone corbels 

 were found in the church, o-ne formed as a plain bracket, the other 

 as an Angel (now headless) winged, and holding between his hands 

 a smooth shield emblazoned with the red cross of St. George. 

 The figure of the Angel also shews distinct traces of colour. 

 Beneath the Altar was seen a leaden coffin, without name but not 

 ancient, probably containing the body of a former Vicar. The 

 Piscina is of the detached pillar form, exactly like that at Bodmin, t 

 but rather larger, being 2ft. Gin. high, and 1ft. Gin. across the top. 

 There are no remains of Sedilia. The Font,:|: perhaps Late 

 Norman, displays on its faces (within circular panels ||) Greek crosses 

 of various forms, " three chevrons in pale," " a saltire between 

 two transverse chevrons pointing inward, i.e. sinister and dexter 

 respectively " ; and " side curves meeting between two quatre- 

 foils," probably to represent " flanches charged with quatrefoils." 



In the masonry of the Carclew Transept, several fragments of 

 door and window jambs, capitals, and tracery were met with, Mr. 

 Murray states, and also the figure of a lion with his tail turned 

 under and brought up with the tuft upon his back, wherein a hole 

 was cut. This has since been fixed as a dripstone ; and there are 



* Stained glass -windows are about to be inserted in the Churcii — one 

 at the East End, by Gibbs of London, and three in the Carclew Transept, 

 by Hardman of Birmingham — and behind the Altar is about to be erected 

 a Eeredos, with Mosaics by Salviati of Yenice, through the munificence of 

 Colonel TremajTie (a great benefactor of the Church) and others of .tha 

 Lemon family. 



f Figured by LysonS, and by Blight ; measuring 2ft. 4in. by 1ft. 4in. 



+ At Mabe, the daughter parish, I am informed, was an old Eont of dark 

 basaltic stone, adorned with quatrefoils. It was broken, but could have been 

 rivetted together, and a zinc lining could have been fitted within it. Instead 

 of this, the Font has been buried in the church, and another substituted. 



II Plate I, fig. 3. 



