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 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 151 At W. end is a 17th cent, shaft alms-box. In vestry is a good early Jacobean altar-table, and a remnant of Laudian altar-rails. Under tower is elaborate armorial slate slab to Robert Bennet, 1683. (Registers, 1655.) Lelant (St. Uny). — Chancel and nave with con- tinuous aisles, S. porch, and W. tower; consider- able and costly restoration in 1873. Arcades are of 6 arches each side; whole fabric is 15th cent., with interesting exception of the entire arch, cir- cular pier with escalloped capital, and half pier of second bay on N. side, which are Norm. Octagonal arcaded bowl of a late Norm, font has recently been recovered from a farmyard and remounted. Church is of granite throughout ; inner S. doorway has very good spandrels and paterae in hollows of mouldings; it should be compared with that of St. Endellion. Blocked-up N. doorway is of Catacleuse stone. The three-staged tower, 60 ft. high, has angle but- tresses. Rood-stairs are in N. walls ; considerable remains of the base of the screen. Over porch is an interesting early 18th cent, copper sundial, on pierced gnomon of which is a quaint representation of Time and Death (see illustrated account in Reliquary, 1898, N.S., vol. iv.). Under the tower is Charles I.'s letter. At W. end of S. aisle are two quaintly engraved slate monuments with effi- gies ; the one to William Praed, 1620, with 1 son and 3 daughters ; the other to Stephen Pawley, 1635. (Registers, 1684.)