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 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 231 of Egloskerry — is a small building consisting of chancel, nave, S. porch, and two-staged W. tower. Nave is but 12 ft. wide, and nave and chancel 44 ft. long. Built-up N. doorway is Norm., tympanum until recently pierced by hole for stove pipe ; it used to be carved with a dragon, but that has been hacked away. Small early Norm, font, bowl en- circled by cable moulding ; shaft has been lowered. The one window on N. side, and one of 3 on S. side, have originally been Norm, lights, but much altered. Other windows in S. wall are of square-headed 2-light granite design of 16th cent.; 3-light E. window is cusped. Interior fittings were primitive, and included rows of hat-pegs on walls. These notes were taken in 1900, and at that date the beauty of the old slate roof made a great impres- sion. The following words respecting it are re- produced from the present writer's notes in the Guardian in 1901, but by that time church had already been restored, and old roof had, alas, dis- appeared : — Tremaine is the one and only church throughout the whole of this region, near the centre of which are the famed old slate quarries of Delabole, that has an old slate roof still remaining. The thicker and more un- even slates of older days, of varying size, applied with much liberality of mortar, and weathered by generations of exposure, assume a beautiful silvery grey tone, and are charming to the artistic eye. But with this solitary exception (and we know not how soon this may go), the