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 CORNWALL mainland arc also ruins, but the main keep was on the mass of rock; at its best, the fort should have been impregnable. Here also are traces of an ancient chapel, dedicated to St. Julietta or Julitta. Below is a tiny quay, where some slate is shipped ; and on the headland facing Tintagel is a large modern hotel — the new age confronting the old. The parish of Tintagel is correctly Trevena, but that name Is now quite superseded. Its church stands exposed to the full force of Atlantic gales, on the cliffs W, of the castle. The very tombstones have had to be supported by buttresses to prevent their being blown down. Romance says that the bells of this church rang supernaturally at the birth of Arthur, and tolled at his death. Its dedication is to SS. Marcelliana and Materiana, of whom the latter seems to be the Welsh Madron. A portion of the main walls appears to be Saxon ; the chancel arch is transition Norm., the N. transept E.E., the S. Dec, the screen Perp. In the vestry, formerly a Lady- chapel, will be found a characteristic thirteenth century door, and a curious stone altar, with partly effaced crosses on its slab. This Lady- chapel may be regarded as chiefly Saxon ; but from Norman times to the present the church has received many additions and restorings. A Roman milestone, or supposed milestone, is pre- served. In the churchyard is an inscribed lych- stone. The vicarage itself deserves attention. In the village, nearly a mile distant, is a most striking old gabled building, formerly the post- 240