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were to bind themselves and their heirs, and which obligation 

 might be enforced by the Official of the Peculiar Jurisdiction of 

 Penryn without legal process. The parishioners of St. Laud 

 were bound to the maintenance of their own church including 

 the Chancel, while, at the same time, they were left still liable 

 for the cost of keeping up their part of the cemetery at Milor, 

 to which church their mortuaries were still to be paid as before. 

 The Bishop granted the parishioners' prayer on these conditions, 

 and executed the deed at Penryn, on the Sunday next after the 

 Feast of Saints Perpetua and Pelicitas '{i.e., 11th March 1309). 

 It was no doubt to carry out this consecration that he had been 

 at Mabe two days previously. 



Although situate inland, the prospect from this church is in 

 its way as lovely as that which can be seen from its parent-church 

 of St. Mylor. Entering by a pretty shaded lane, from the high 

 road, as soon as you have gained the churchyard you have a 

 distant and uninterrupted view of (and beyond) Falmouth 

 Harbour and away up the valley of the Fal. The building itself 

 is not of any especial interest having been, with the exception of 

 the tower and porch, rebuilt in 1869 after serious injury by a 

 thunder-storm in 1866. A very good description of the church 

 as it was before this unfortunate accident may be found in the 

 second volume of the Journal of this Institution. The rebuilding 

 has been carried out on the lines of the former building, except 

 that the great buttresses which formerly stood against the wall, 

 have not been replaced, being no longer necessary, and that the 

 north doorway has been omitted.'^' The former windows have 

 been repaired and replaced, the east window of the Chancel 

 being a small three-light, with tracery consisting of two quatre- 

 foils having ornamented cusps, those of the south aisle being 

 three-light Perpendicular windows, those of the north being two- 

 light Perpendicular windows varying alternately in height and 

 design. 



The south porch is of interest, though of little beauty. Its 

 outer arch is of granite, four-centred under a square head, the 

 arch and jambs being ornamented on the outside with a rude 



* This doorway had a low pointed arch, arch and jambs being moulded with 

 broad hollow chamfer, ending near the bottom in a pyramid stop. It is now 

 preserved in a garden near by. 



