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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 83 nave with continuous aisles, S. porch, and W. tower. Arcades are of 4 bays in nave and 2 in chancel. Mr. Sedding thinks the arches, like those of St. Columb Major, are 14th cent. Beer stone, but that the granite piers point to 13th cent, reconstruction. S. entrance and porch are also 14th cent. Lofty well-proportioned tower, about 100 ft. high, is late 15th cent. Squared late Norm, font has central and 4 angle shafts with heads for capitals. In vestry are several old bench-ends ; also some fragments of old chancel screen, which was long esteemed as the best carved and best painted in Cornwall ; it was destroyed in 1795. Rood-loft stairs are on N. side, and there are small passages through arcade walls. Unusually large painting of Charles II. arms against N. wall of nave. Considerable restoration in 1889. (Registers, 1560.) St. Constantine. — This beautifully situated and finely proportioned 15th cent, church, on the Helford River, consists of chancel, nave, S. aisle, double N. aisles, S. porch, and W. tower. Almost entirely of granite, extensively quarried in this parish. Double- buttressed tower is good example of plain granite work. S. arcade has 6 arches, N. 7, and extreme N. aisle or Bosahan chapel 3 ; all supported on monolith piers. S. aisle the oldest. Outer N. aisle early 16th cent. Remains of wall-painting show mitred head and hand of a bishop. Fine tower archway badly moulded. Tower of 3 stages with panelled pinnacles ; uppermost string carved