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 120 CORNWALL pendicular period. Then only since the early sculptors of the crosses did architects and carvers attack the granite, and most of the churches were then rebuilt. The finest are St Kewe, Mawgan in Pyder with a beautiful tower, Probus with a richly sculptured tower of the reign of Elizabeth, St Austell also with a good tower, the carvings in Elvan St Neot, Stratton, and Buryan. One remarkable Lanteglos Church feature is in the porches, where tracery of an ogival character is introduced in the arch. The Rev. W. Haslam, in the Transactions of the Exeter Dioc. Arch. Society^ says of the Cornish churches that they "are low, and some- what flat in the pitch of the roof, and without buttresses to break the long plain horizontal lines which are so conspicuous. All these are features of the Perpendicular