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 96 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL of the Passion ; not a little spoilt by enlargement at time of restoration. Wagon roof of S. aisle has exceptionally good carved timbers. Only trace of rood-loft is the opening in arcade. Many fragments of screen-work and old bench-ends disappeared dur- ing restoration of 1867. At that time an effectively carved mural slate memorial, erected in 1581, was moved from aisle to beneath tower; it commemo- rates various members of the Kestell family from 1520 to 1578. A Molesworth monument against N. wall of nave is notable for bust of Dame Barbara Molesworth, wife of 4th baronet, and for ecstatic conclusion of turgid epitaph : — " To deliver to pos- terity a description of the beauty of her mind would be as equally vain as the sculptor's attempt in the above resemblance of her face. The one was superior to art, the other to imagination." The monument is undated, but she died in 1735. (Registers, 1600.) Egloskerry (St. Petrock). — Chancel, nave, N. transept, S. aisle, S. porch, and W. tower 59 ft. high. This was a Norm, cruciform church, it lost S. transept in favour of a 15th cent, aisle with 5 arches on monolith granite piers. N. and S. Norm, doorways had each a tympanum, the former sculp- tured with a dragon remains in situ ; a remarkable Agnus Dei of the latter is over present entrance. Note plain Norm, font, and shaft piscina in chancel ; jambs of N. transept also of that period, as well as much of N. wall of nave. Far too thoroughly re- stored in 1886-7. Rood-stairs are entered from