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 210 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL On W. side of porch is an unusually large holy- water stoup ; niche is 24 in. by 18 in., and basin 6 in. deep. Font, like a big stoup with 4 projecting ribs, is said to have originally stood in ancient chapel of Wadgworthy in this parish, and was placed here in 1870. It is, however, highly improbable that the chapel had baptismal rights, and we believe it to have been a domestic vessel. (Registers, 1694.) St. Sampson, or Golant, has a church consisting of nave and S. aisle and porch, and W. tower. Parish was formerly chapelry of Tywardraeth, and did not obtain burial rights until 1507. Chapel was built and dedicated in 1509, to which date whole fabric pertains. Nave and S. aisle are of about equal size, and form a rectangular building separated by 7 four- centred arches chiefly of Pentewan stone. Chancel and its chapel were formed by screen-work. A de- structive " restoration " and partial rebuilding took place in 1842, when screens were ejected, and a few old carved bench-ends worked up into pulpit and reading-desk. At that date old arrangement of church was obliterated, S. aisle being turned into a quasi-nave by moving altar to its E. end. Building is faced with granite throughout ; granite tower is of two stages. Octagonal font also of same material. On W. side of porch is an arched-over well of good water ; former passage to it unhappily destroyed when porch was rebuilt. Carvings of wagon roofs are good ; the inscribed wall-plates were unhappily rearranged in 1842, and meaning much confused.