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 ioo THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL conventional foliage is Trans.-Norm. In N. tran- sept is a brass, with kneeling effigies and arms, to Richard Trencreek, 1594, wife and 4 children. (Registers, 1671.) St. Erney. — Chancel, nave, N. aisle, N. and S. porches, and W. tower. E. window of chancel, with interlaced tracery, is good example of early Dec. work. Low tower also Dec, but with heavy modern buttresses. N. aisle, with arcade of 4 arches and monolith granite piers, 15th cent. Heavy Purbeck font, of irregular squared shape, is early Norm. Restoration of 1872 swept away much old woodwork ; both porches are of that date. In aisle a slate memorial to Henry Hody, 1636, with engraved border. (Registers incorporated with those of Landrake.) St. Erth. — Church is a parallelogram, 70 ft. by 55 ft., divided into three by arcades of 6 arches, and having also S. porch and W. tower. It is a good example of early Per p. work, c. 1400, but severely restored in 1874, several portions being rebuilt. Tower is of 3 stages ; " at the angles of the uppermost string-course are grotesque figures of dogs and other animals, the only instance of this kind of decoration in West Cornwall " (Blight). Squared bowl of font, found under floor in 1874, is Norm., base shafts modern. (Registers, I563-) St. Ervan. — Chancel, nave, transepts, S. porch, and W. tower ; formerly a cruciform E.E. church.