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 LAWHITTON— LELANT ruptlon of Ian-nans, " valley-church " — in fact the name of the parish was formerly Lanant. Uny was the Irish Eoghain or Euinus, the Uniac of Brittany. He was of royal race (what Irishman was not ?) and endured captivity in Wales and Armorica before he became a mis- sionary saint. We find dedications of his not only at Lelant, but at Redruth, Wendron, and Sancreed. His arrival in Cornwall was of the same date as that of St. la, St. Ere, and the many that came about the close of the fifth century. The present church consists of nave, chancel, N. and S. aisles, and buttressed Perp. tower. The second bay on the N. of the nave is Norm. ; adjoining which is a thirteenth century acutely pointed arch of plain masonry. The porch retains its niche for the holy-water stoup. The old shallow font, after being cast out and broken, has been restored and replaced ; but the ancient bench-ends, closely resembling those of St. Ives, were destroyed some seventy years since, the chancel screen sharing their fate. In the chancel are piscina and credence ; in the S. aisle two aumbries. This district abounds in Celtic crosses ; there are two in Lelant cemetery, one in the churchyard, and others in the roads or elsewhere. Tradition says that this place was once a busy seaport, but was overwhelmed with sand, just as were Crantock and Perranzabuloe ; and in cutting the railway through Lelant towans to St. Ives, a number of skeletons, said to be of Ivernian type, were discovered. All this 1 57 v*,,-