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 2i6 THE CHURCHES -OF CORNWALL addition. " The pulpit and desk are tastefully panelled with ancient carving preserved from the screen and bench-ends" (Parochial History of Cornwall, 1870). This was part of the unhappy restoration of 1854; it has since gone through the restorer's mill on two other occasions. (Regis- ters, 1694.) St. Stephen-by-Launceston. — Church, re-dedi- cated in 1259, consists of chancel with a chapel, nave of 4 bays, S. aisle, transepts, S. porch, and W. tower ; it suffered a " thorough restoration " in 1883, when tracery of most of windows was re- newed. Circular font, 42 in. high and 33 in diameter, is a good Norm, example; there is a triple cable moulding round rim, and a hand- some flowing pattern at base of bowl. Undoubted indications of Norm, work in chancel and on N. side of nave ; Mr. Sedding is also of opinion " that the N. and S. walls of the transepts are part of the Norm, church." A N. chancel chapel added to E. of N. transept c. 1400. The early 16th cent, tower of 3 stages, with double buttresses crocketed at the set-offs, and octagonal pinnacles with crocketed finials, is a noble instance of granite building; it is about 90 ft. high, but looks higher from its fine lofty situation. A beautifully painted pillar of old rood-screen is fixed against wall of N. tran- sept ; it is sufficient to show that screen was of exceptional type, still extant at St. Mawgan-in- Pyder, and of which there are remains at St.