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rather below the level of the hall, accessible from it by steps, 

 and forniiug a cellar, with a room over it for the lord's private 

 use, and a chamber or chambers above. 



These latter were only accessible by an external stone stair- 

 case, built in the receding angle on the south-east of the Tower. 

 The Tower was buttressed on the E. and W. sides only. The 

 cellar walls were 4 ft. thick. A small western wing attached 

 to the S. front of the Hall served as a Porter's Lodge, with a 

 chamber over it, which was reached from the Court by another 

 external stair of stone ; and an arched recess near the door 

 of the lodge (always called the Porter's chair) served as his 

 seat in summer. The only window of the lodge was a narrow 

 light in the south wall, commanding the approach to the gate of 

 entrance externally. On the south side tradition places the site 

 of the chapel, which is stated in one of the Carminow deeds^' to 

 have been in ruins in 1561 ; and as we learn from Hals that the 

 effigy of the Crusader was removed from its place in the Chapel 

 to the parish Church of Mawgan in Meneage in the reign of 

 James 1st, and that the ruined walls of the chapel were still 

 visible in Hals' time,f it may be safely concluded that it was 

 never afterwards restored. 



The only remains of Ecclesiastical windows which were dis- 

 covered in 1861 were found built into the walls of the tower, in 

 such a way as to shew conclusively that they formed no part of its 

 design, but had belonged to another part of the buildings, very 

 probably the ruined chapel, and that the tower was of more 

 recent date than the rest of the Manor House, the hall door of 

 which was a simple equilateral arch of Edwardian type, with 

 a continuous chamfered edge well cut in elvan. The lodge door 

 and windows, as well as some windows of the house were, 

 apparently, of the same date, whilst two well executed ogee 

 trefoiled lights of a later date, now preserved in the newly 

 erected farmhouse, were amongst the remains found within the 

 walls of the tower. The chamber over the hall contained an 

 Early English fire-place, of the greenstone of the neighbour- 



* The deed referred to is a lease of the Barton of Carminow, by John Arun- 

 dell, of Lanherne, to Isabell St. Aubyn. The chapel is thus excepted from the 

 general covenant to repair : — '• Excepting and savynge onne Chapel yn Carminow 

 aforesaid, now yn ruyn and dccaye." 



t D. Gilberts' Cornwall, vol. 3, p. 132. 



