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GODREVY ROCKS— GORRAN South British saints. Golant is said formerly to have had " a tree in the tower, a well in the porch, and a chimney in the roof"; the well at least is still surviving, under an arch at the entrance of the church. In the church (late Perp.) it will be noticed that pulpit and lectern consist of old carved bench-ends, representing the Apostles and sacred symbols. Such a con- version is certainly better than the wanton destruction that has been too often the fate of these things. At Castle Dour, near by (an entrenchment, with an inscribed stone), Charles I. slept in his carriage on the night before the surrender of Lord Essex, 1644. Goldsithuey (i m. E. of Marazion) is a village in the parish of Perranuthnoe, affording a grand view of Mount's Bay. There was a chapel here which must, in the first case, have been dedicated to St. Sithney or Sithuinus, but later said to have been dedicated to St. James; and it is stated that the granite figure over the keystone of Perranuthnoe Church's S. door was removed from the ruins of this chapel. The Irish name of Sithney was Setna, Latinised into Sithuinus. Goonhilly Downs, near the Lizard, are an exceptionally barren piece of moorland, con- taining entrenchments and hut-circles. The name is probably a corruption of Gunwalloe, or Winwalloe, though the guide-books say differently. Gorran (2 m. S. of Mevagissey) is the church town of Gorran Haven, a small fishing village. "5