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 1 82 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 15 th cent, arches supported on monolith granite piers ; aisle is continued for 2 bays to form chancel chapel. Traces of Norm, masonry in side walls of chancel. Note good octagonal Perp. font ; rood- stairs, N. aisle ; fine series of arabesque bench-ends, ^•-1535 ; portions of slate table-tomb E. end N. aisle; kneeling effigies of Thomas Stone, 1604, and wife Elizabeth, 1636, with arms of Stone, Harris, and Whitelinge ; good brass, with effigy, to Roger Opy, 1 5 17; King Charles I.'s letter, and royal arms, 1660; six-holed stocks in porch. (Registers, 1558.) St. Morvah. — Church of St. Morwetha, re-dedi- cated in 1409, was rebuilt as a plain square structure in 1828, but retaining a two-staged, unbuttressed, 14th cent, tower. During recent repairs traces of an aisle arcade of 3 bays came to light. Of the 1828 church Mr. Thurstan Peter has well remarked that " its ugliness is almost profane." (Registers, 1617.) Morval {St. Wenn). — Chancel, nave, N. aisle, S. transept and porch, and W. tower of 3 stages. Probably cruciform in 13th cent. Plain octagonal font E.E. S. aisle and tower are early 16th cent. Curious mural memorial in transept to Walter Coode, 1637, last of the Coodes of Morval House. Estate then passed to the Buller family; over private entrance to transept is "I. B., 167 1." (Registers, 1538.) MorwenstOW. — The finely situated church of St. Morwenna consists of chancel with modern N.