lilTTLE PETHERIOK, OTHERWISE ST. PETEOOK MINOB. 109 



Some of the new dressed and cut stone- work is of the deep 

 grey close-grained stone called Kattaclugh or carracluse, which 

 is always found, more or less, in old Cornish churches. 



The outer doorway of the porch, presented by Mrs. Mary 

 Prideaux-Brune, gives a good specimen of this fine stone ; as 

 does also the new arch, with its pillar, cap and base, — separating 

 the chancel from the north aisle, — presented by Thomas Henry 

 Peter, Esq., which once formed part of the now ruined church 

 of St. Constantino in St. Merryn Parish. 



Two small semi-detached capitals of the best middle-pointed 

 period of architecture were discovered in the old walls of the 

 tower. These are apparently of the Pentuan stone, which was 

 much used in the best works of that age in Cornwall. 



Amongst other reliques of past ages, a tombstone, thought 

 by some,*' who read it "Sire Roger Leinho," to be that of the 

 founder, was turned up, and has been laid under a low arch 

 purposely constructed for its reception on the north side of the 

 Sacrarium. It is a flat stone with a simple floriated cross cut 

 upon it in low relief, surmounted by a human head. 



The church is filled with open benches of stained and 

 varnished deal arranged on new floors. 



The tower has been rebuilt from the foundations. 



The situation of the church is unusually picturesque, at the 

 bottom of a wooded slope rising almost abruptly from the banks 

 of a pebbly brook ; and is just such as to suggest to a writer of 

 romance what a quiet, peaceful, rural churchyard ought to be ; 

 and, to many concerned in the present restoration, it is full of 

 early recollections as well as hallowed by old associations. 



*The Rev. W. lago (Hon. Sec. for Cornwall, of the Society of Antiquaries) 

 writes: — " By permission of the Eector and with the kind assistance of Mr. J. 

 D. Enys, I have examined the slab in its very dark situation, and have taken 

 several rubbings of it. The head, in relief above the cross, is that of an 

 ecclesiastic, — the tonsure being very apparent. The name in the Norman-French 

 legend is not Leinho. The words, as far as they can be traced, are : — + SIRE 

 ROGER LEMPRV GIST ICI.^(M and P being conjoined). Sir was a title 

 pertaining to many of the clergy. The name Lempru, Lemprew, Lempreurj 

 Lempriere, occurs elsewhere. The slab is much like those at St. Breoke, Bodmin, 

 St. Merryn, St. Burian, Tintagel, &c." 



