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80 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL St. Clement. — Chancel, nave, continuous S. aisle, N. transept, S. porch, and W. tower. Remains of 13th cent, work in transept and on N. side of nave, but almost entirely rebuilt, save the tower, in 1865. Mr. E. H. Sedding writes with just severity as to this " lamentable mutilation . . . when the old roofs, benches, and nearly everything else of interest were swept away." A few pieces of carved roofing preserved in porch. Under tower is a low screen of modern boarding supported by a number of strips of coarsely carved old oak. These strips quite obviously served as wall-plates, but a brass plate on wall states that this screen, erected in 1908, is formed out of remnants of "the rood-screen dis- covered in 1865 " ! There is not a square inch of the rood-screen in the whole work, and it was definitely stated at time of restoration that there were no screen traces. Octagonal granite font is of 14th cent., tracery on 4 panels. Close to font are 6- holed stocks. Two lower stages of tower are 13th cent., though altered when top stage was added in 15th cent. A wall-painting of St. Christopher came to light in 1849, but this and various other interest- ing mural designs were destroyed in 1865. 1 Access to the churchyard is gained on the W. over a filled-up Cornish style beneath a picturesque slate-hung " church-house," now used as vestry and parish room. (Registers, 1543.) St. Clether. — Wholly rebuilt in 1865 in E.E. style, 1 R.I. C, ii. 43-6. A plate is given of a most remarkable female figure on the splay of one of the windows.