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 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 237 obvious save late Norm, font with square bowl. "Thoroughly restored" in 1873, when good wagon roofs were unfortunately bereft of intervening plaster ; tower repaired in 1 887-8. Fabric is ex- clusively 15th cent. S. aisle extends whole length of church, and has arcade on granite monoliths of 6 arches ; N. arcade has only 3 arches, two open- ing into chancel and one into nave. The unbut- tressed tower of 3 stages is 65 ft. high. A wealth of 1 6th and 17th cent, monuments, chiefly of slate, with effigies and arms in relief. Most notable are those to Alice Reskymer and 3 daughters, 1 564 ; to Hum- phrey Nicoll, of Penrose, with wife and children, 1597; and to Anthony Nicoll, 1658, with wife and 4 sons. In S. aisle hangs a funeral helm, some armour, and a dagger. An old coped gravestone in churchyard is probably pre-Norm. (Registers, 1 5 59.) Tywardreath. — Church re-dedicated to St. Andrew in 1347, consisting of chancel, nave, S. aisle and porch, N. transept, and W. tower of 4 stages, used to retain many interesting features of middle of 14th cent., but was, alas, almost entirely rebuilt, save tower, in 1880. A stone in chancel floor com- memorates Thomas Colyns, last prior of Tyward- reath, who succeeded in 1507, and died in 1 539- Priory of Tywardreath, a cell of the Normandy abbey of Angers, stood near the church on S. side of churchyard. Original altar slab, with the 5 con- secration crosses, discovered in 1880, and replaced. (Registers, 1642.)