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Norman font and mediaeval rood-screen attracted attention. 

 The lower panels of the screen display in gold and colours 

 ancient worthies connected with church history. Some of the 

 figures are said to represent Saints Gregory, Axabrose, Jerome, 

 and Augustine, St. Elizabeth of Hungary, Saints Barbara and 

 Catherine. 



Some time ago, a person employed to clean the woodwork was 

 industriously proceeding to efface the series of paintings. Many 

 of them were destroyed and had it not been for Mr. Bulier's 

 arrival, the few that now remain would also have disappeared. 



The carvings on pulpit and bench-ends, and the monumental 

 memorials are worthy of inspection. The wooden figures, &c., 

 on a Grrylls tomb, of the 1 7th century, are remarkable and in 

 good preservation. Armorial bearings of Grrylls, and of Buller, 

 occur in several parts of the church. Nothing was seen to 

 remind the pilgrim of "William of Worcester's statement that St. 

 Juncus lies buried within its precincts. 



After thanking the rector, all had to start speedily, but some 

 of the company contrived meanwhile to snatch a hasty glance at 

 Court, :j: an interesting old residence, formerly the seat of the 

 Grrylls family. Some old oak carving in the house is dated 1612. 



Very soon the carriages were stopped, for a few minutes, when 

 the cross-roads east of the church, had been reached : — for the 

 Griant's Hedge is there seen to advantage, the road being con- 

 tiguous to it. Furze and brambles cover the ancient mound, 

 which, from the junction of the roads, tends south-east across 

 the fields towards Looe. The road diverges more to the south. 

 MacLauchlan has weU described the great "risbank."§ 



Pelynt was next arrived at. The old church, said to be the 

 burial place of St. Mancus, the Bishop, is being restored. The 

 vicar, the Rev. John Buller Kitson, exhibited the lofty 

 pastoral stalf, which was in some way associated with 

 Jonathan Trelawny, 1| Bishop of Winchester, who was buried in 



J At Court Barton, glass vessels have been found, and a fragment of Renaissance 

 Earthenware— the latter adorned with groups of persons and part of an Inscription, 



— " Rl : GBV : IVDIT : STR : D : PR : Dl : [S (?) ] " The details are in Rev. 



W. lago's possession. 



§ ''A giant having nothing to do, made a great hedge from Lerrin to Looe." 

 See MacLauchlan's Survey, R. I. of C. Report, 1849-50. 



II Trelawne, the Bishop's residence, containing his portrait, &c., was visited 

 during the Excursion of 1881. 



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