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completed in this position. The tympanum, which formerly 

 served as a lintel to the priest's door, contains a cross and circle 

 very effectively combined. The lower edge of this stone has a 

 bead-moulding which is continued down the jambs. The 

 detached shafts are new, and not very satisfactory. The 

 Norman bases were found at the south doorway, but are more 

 appropriately placed here. The southern base represents three 

 faces on one head, and is, no doubt, a symbol of the Trinity ; the 

 other pourtrays some beast apparently munching a bone. As 

 rebuilt, there is nothing Norman about the base of the tower, 

 and its upper portion is distinctly Perpendicular. The windows 

 are very pretty specimens of the work of that date. The door- 

 way was no doubt preserved from the older work when the 

 tower was rebuilt in the 1 4th, or 1 5th, century. In the middle of 

 the west face is a small slit in which has been inserted coloured 

 glass to form a cross. This glass was, we are informed, found 

 at the restoration. The tower is wholly built within the church, 

 but dead walls now carry it on the north and south, where 

 probably there were formerly arches, as at St. Keverne, and the 

 beauty of the arrangement is entirely concealed by walls having 

 also been built across the aisles in continuation of the eastern 

 face of the tower. Moreover, a considerable portion of the 

 church is by this arrangement now shut ofl: and rendered useless. 

 "Whether this had to be done as a means of strengthening the 

 tower, or whatever else may have been the reason, it is very 

 regrettable that what must have been a very beautiful west end 

 should thus have been destroyed. 



The south porch has an outer arch of Caen stone, with 

 panelled jambs. This arch is of much superior workmanship to 

 its setting, and it has been conjectured that it and the pillars and 

 capitals of the arcade to which we shall refer directly, were 

 brought from Griasney after its destruction, that is, at some time 

 subsequent to 1537. Yery possibly this was so; and, perhaps, 

 the Caen stone stoup, formerly in the porch, was brought from 

 the same place. This stoup having been cracked has been 

 recently replaced by a brand-new one set in the old arch. Other 

 entrances to the building are by a priest's door, and a door in the 

 eastern side of the Carclew chapel. 



