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 12 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL St. Mabe, the arcade and porch of St. Mylor, and the arcades of Forrabury, St. Just-in- Penwith, St. Madron, Padstow, Poughill, and Sheviock. A certain amount of choice building stone is supposed to have been brought by sea from the excellent quarries of Bere on the coast of S.E. Devon ; it has been noticed in arches of the churches of St. Columb Major and St. Columb Minor, and also in the piers of St. Just-in-Penwith. 1 In a few adjacent churches in the Lizard district, such as St. Grade, Landewednack, St. Mullion, St. Ruan Major, and St. Ruan Minor, great blocks of dark richly coloured stone were used from the Serpen- tine cliffs of Kynance, producing in the towers when mingled with light grey granite an irregular chequered effect. The material used for mediaeval fonts was rarely brought from beyond the county limits. Caen stone was imported for the fonts of Anthony, Maker, Menheniot, and Truro. The good Norm, fonts of Altarnun, Laneast, St. Germans, and Landrake, are of Dorsetshire Purbeck. Similar Norm. fonts of Egloskerry, Jacobstow, Lawhitton, St. Thomas-by-Launceston, and Warbstow are of the hard Hicks Mill Greystone. Granite is of infrequent occurrence ; there is but one Norm. font of that material, namely, at Perran-Uthnoe ; the three early 14th cent, fonts of St. Buryan, 1 In each of these caves, however, it is possible that the stone is a Caen variety.