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CORNWALL the Bishop of Exeter was counselled to make both St. Ives and Towednack parochial, but dependant still on Lelant. Granite was brought from Zennor, and the church was completed in 1426. It consists of chancel, nave, two aisles, and tower 119 ft. in height; the Trcnwith Chapel was added later. The roofs are of ornate waggon-form, with figures of angels at the springings of the braces ; the chancel roof is particularly elaborate. One of the best organs of that time was placed in the church, but in 1647 Puritanic zeal caused its removal, for in the singularly interesting and valuable Borough Accounts of St. Ives we read, under that date, " Item payd the Joyners for takinge downe the Organs and Railings of the church, j^l 15s. jd.". These railings must have been the beautiful screen given to the original church by the master of the smiths that helped to erect it. These Borough Accounts deserve to be carefully studied ; they may be found in J. H. Matthews's admirable History of S/. hrs, and they give many illuminating glimpses of the life of the past. Visitors to the church should specially notice the bench-ends, and the font, which, though it cannot be earlier than the fifteenth century, unless it came from another structure, has certainly an older st) le. Perhaps it is a copy. A fifteenth century Trenwith brass, formerly on the floor of the Trenwith aisle, has been removed to the E. wall, and has been most quaintly restored. The usual nimbus has evidently been mistaken for the contour of 134