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LADOCK— LANDEWEDNACK and as we know for certain that there was a St. Winoc in Britain, why should we attribute his foundations to Winwaloe ? If the names are identical, why should the neighbouring parish of Gunwalloe retain that name practi- cally unaltered, while this parish has become Landewednack ? Winwaloe may have visited the spot, just as he finally settled at the Breton Landevenech ; yet both places may bear the name of St. Winoc who had been there before him. The church here is one of the most finely situated in the kingdom ; it is largely Dec, but with Perp. additions and some modern restoration. Perhaps the most interesting fea- ture is the porch, whose roof has the groining that is so rare to Cornwall ; its inner doorway is very curious, exhibiting three distinct styles. Within the original Norm, doorway, in good preservation, are traces of a second entrance, apparently Dec. ; and within this again is a Perp. lower doorway. The font, E.E. in date, bears the inscription Ric. Bolham me fecit. On the bells are Latin mottoes and ancient bell- marks. There is a two-light low-side window. Not only the pulpit but some of the church- yard monuments are of serpentine. Many of the tombs record death by shipwreck, and some death by plague. It was natural that in this isolated district, as at Land's End, the Cornish language should linger longer than elsewhere ; and it is said that the last sermon in Cornish was preached here, about the year 1678. 147