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 nMIUEiaWI'MTIIIHIBIL: 162 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL quatrefoils respectively, with single quatrefoil in apex. The 14th cent, octagonal font is remarkably carved. On E. face is the Rood with Sts. Mary and John ; (2) this is followed, in bold relief, by mounted huntsman and hound ; (3) 2 lions passant ; (4) grotesque head, with 2 snakes; (5) tracery of quatrefoils ; (6) 2 hounds and a wolf, mutilated ; (7) tracery of quatrefoils ; and (8) a mitred foliaged head. Bowl stands on 5 shafts. 1 Over W. arch of nave is an alabaster panel carved with martyrdom of St. Bartholomew. Against pier by S. entrance is a singular oak alms-box, 38 in. high ; inscribed W. T. Mater, 1645, and below a clumsily carved human figure ; outside S. porch is granite table - tomb of donor, commemorating " William Taprell (of)ten Mayor of this Borough." Against N. wall is brass effigy in armour of Tristram Curteys, Aims-box, Lostwithiel 1423 ; he was M.P. for Lostwithiel. 1 For much longer description of this font, see Cox and Harvey's Church Furniture, 192-3.