42 THE CHUECH OF SX. MICHAEL PENKEVEI. 



traces of two niches, one on each side of the altar, and also of what 

 seemed to be the jambs of a door in the south wall. 



Among features of architectural detail, Mr. Street mentions that 

 almost all the arches had labels with carved heads introduced, not 

 only as terminations, but also as key-stones. — Under the window-sills 

 inside were generally short stringcourses, the length of the window. 

 — The cusping is generally very slightly ogee in its character ; and 

 one of the windows, of which fragments were discovered walled up 

 in the west wall of the north transept, had a later look than the 

 ascertained date of the building; it was really, however, very 

 similar to the tracery opening in the gable of the south transept, 

 which was, beyond doubt, part of Sir John Trejago's work. — The 

 roof, which had been modernized and cieled, contained a good deal 

 of the old carved-oak work so frequently met with in the cradle 

 roofs of Devon and Cornwall. One curious feature is the great 

 carved beam which occurs over the transept arch, cut to a consider- 

 able curve, in order to clear the arch. 



In the work of rebuilding, the very selfsame stones of arches, 

 windows, doorways, quoins, &c., were carefully preserved and 

 replaced in their old positions, wherever they were not too far 

 decayed ; and in these cases, exact counterparts were cut, of the 

 same description of stone. Portland stone seems to have been used 

 to a considerable extent in the more delicate portions of the 14th 

 Century work, but it had decayed every where ; and whereas much 

 of the old Pentuan stone was fit for re-use, scarcely a fragment of 

 the Portland admitted of it. 



