410 S. MYLOR AND MABE CHURCHES. 



cable moTilcling, and on the inside with a series of large 

 (apparently) fleurs-de-lys in vases. The inner door is of Caen 

 stone, and is said by tradition to have come from Glasney 

 College. It is segmental under a squarehead, with I.H.S. in the 

 western spandril, and in the other a Creek cross within a circle. 

 Both arch and jambs are enriched with mouldings of cable and 

 foliage. Over the outer arch is a rectangular niche for a saint 

 (or sun dial), and over the inner doorway is a saint's niche with 

 a foot-bracket. In the south east corner is a mutilated 

 rectangular stoup. 



The interior of the church is disappointing, owing largely 

 to the fact that the two aisles extend to nearly the full 

 length of the nave and chancel, and that there is, now, no screen, 

 as of old — nothing to break the square appearance which this gives 

 to the building. The aisles are each separated from the centre 

 of the church by an arcade of sis lofty four-centred arches each 

 of two orders formed of squares, the angles of which have been 

 cut into cavettos, and all carried on slight and plain octangular 

 pillars. There are, however, a few objects of interest still 

 remaining. In the south wall of the chancel is a pretty piscina 

 with credence- shelf above, under a segmental arch within a 

 square head ; and just west of this an aumbrie,'^'' in which were 

 found the alabaster fragments referred to elsewhere in this paper. 

 In the north wall is a sedile under a four-centred granite 

 arch, arch and jambs being moulded with a single cavetto, with 

 a pyramid stop at the foot of each jamb. 



The rood-stairs still remain in the second bay of the south 

 wall, and the opening remains over the south arcade. f In the 

 east wall of the north aisle, between the window and the south 

 corner, is a niche containing what is apparently a fragment of the 

 canopy of some tomb and below it a small piece of a shaft. 



* The measurements are, piscina recess 20 in. high, 14| in. wide and 16 

 in. deep, the credence shelf 5g- in. from the top. The aumbrie is I65 high, 15| 

 wide and 14 in. deep. The sedile 47i in. high and 37 in. wide. 



t The curious shape of the rood-loft opening over the arcade which is 

 commented on and illustrated by Mr. Whitley, in vol. 2 of the Journal of this 

 Institution, arose apparently mei'ely from the plastering. It is afrequent mistake 

 to suppose that these openings alwaj s gave access to the loft ; its measurements 

 often are such as to make this impossible, as, say, in the case of St. Mylor. 



