186 CHtTRCH OF ST. JTJST-IN-PEITWITH. 



represents the Saviour surrounded by the symbols of various 

 trades on which spirt drops of the sacred blood. It has with 

 much probability been explained as representing the Passion and 

 as a symbolisation of the truth that Christ died for all, the 

 universality of the Vicarial sacrifice being indicated by the tools 

 of the various trades. Similar drawings are to be seen at St. 

 Breage and at Lanivet. 



Before any part of the present church was built (and the 

 oldest part of it as it now stands is probably part of the very 

 church whose high altar was dedicated by Bp. Grrandisson on the 

 12th of July, 1336,) there was a church at St. Just. This record 

 of the dedication is, as far as I know, the earliest written refer- 

 ence to the fabric of the church ; but Mr. Buller has told us of a 

 Norman capital, 15 inches square, which was discovered, with 

 other fragments of a previous building, built into the north wall 

 of the chancel. He figures this capital, and tells us that it was 

 adapted to serve as a piscina in the south wall, in the place of one 

 too much damaged to be replaced. There is here now an early 

 arch of oolite, with a new credence shelf and basin, and the old 

 drain still remains, with an opening in the outer wall, in the shape 

 of a rose, but now plastered over by some stupid mason. 

 But the capital thus ingeniously adapted has not been seen for 

 many years. There is, however, in the vicarage garden the 

 capital of a Norman respond of the same type as that figured by 

 Buller, and 14J inches across. This, too, has evidently been used 

 for other purposes, the top being hollowed out apparently to make 

 it serve as a holy-water stoup. 



Close by this, in the recess which has now been converted 

 into a sedile, was found the celebrated Selus stone, long left lying 

 about in the church, but now well mounted on a base at the west 

 end of the north aisle. But why on earth the churchwardens or 

 whoever are responsible, allow a deal pew to be stuck right in 

 front of it passes my comprehension. I have not a great stock of 

 patience, and should not like to trust myself too near that pew 

 with an axe in my hand. This stone is the most interesting thing 

 in the church, and should be so placed that all can see it. Take 

 away this one offending pew, and the position of the stone will be 

 all that can be desired. If the j^atron saint of this parish be, as 



