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 H2 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL forming a covered entrance to aisle. This portico has both S. and W. doorways. The latter is a heavy doorway with spandrels, c. 1 500. Of same date is blocked - up doorway under window of widened aisle. When the St. German relics chapel was erected in 14th cent, it would certainly have its own doorway in projecting part of its W. wall ; and when the time came for extension of whole aisle a doorway would be transferred to the S. wall. Such a doorway would doubtless be much used by pilgrims to the shrine — there would be crowds on the two festival days of St. German, July 31, his death day, and October 1, his translation ; it seems to have been rebuilt on a wider scale, c. 1 500, together with W. doorway of porch. The pilgrims would enter by one of these doorways and depart through the other. It must not be supposed that the S. aisle was the site of the parish altar ; this would certainly be at E. end of nave, and the ordinary parish entrance would be through the main W. doorway. The year 1500 is said to be the exact date of re-roofing nave. After the priory was dissolved, in 1539, the quire of the canons naturally fell into decay. The Cham- pernowne family, to whom Henry VIII. granted the priory, used much of the walls in their adaptation of the conventual buildings as a residence, and they actually built up a brew-house on the site of the high altar ! This brew-house was standing in 1804, when Whitaker took some measurements.