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74 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL For a full account of the highly interesting sanctuary rights pertaining to the church and precincts of St. Buryan, see Dr. Cox's Sanctuaries and Sanctuary Seekers (191 1). 1 (Registers, 1653.) Callington (St. Mary). — Present church, con- secrated on 31 August, 1438, is a well-built structure of granite, consisting of chancel with N. chapel, clerestoried nave of 4 bays, aisles, S. porch, and W. tower. Much restoration in 1858-9, and in 1882 enlarged by a second N. aisle. Though an old market-town and borough, Callington was for several centuries merely a chapelry of South Hill. The fine Norm, font points, however, to a chapel of some size and importance in early days ; it is of Hicks Mill Greystone, 29 in. square and 36 in. high, with human heads at angles of rim ; . on N. and W. faces of bowl are large roundles ® divided into 8 rays, whilst the other faces are carved with conventional branches. The chapel !* had no sepulchral rites, and in 1436 Nicholas 2* Assheton and townsfolk, supported by Humphrey, - Earl of Stafford, the patron, and the Prince of St. ' a. Germans, petitioned Bishop Lacy to be saved ex- 01 pense and inconvenience of carrying their dead 3 i « miles to South Hill. The prayer was granted in 1438, when, through the generosity of Nicholas Assheton, a judge of much repute, the chapel had been rebuilt on so fine a scale. A fine brass to the 1 There are two good papers on this church by Mr. Thurstan Peter in vol. i. of Cornish Magazine (1&98).