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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 103 late Gothic windows are original. Pulpit is an amalgam of old pieces of carving brought chiefly from the Continent about i860, but including pieces of English screen cornices. In the vestry is an old painted alabaster tablet of the Flagellation, prob- ably from the Continent. St. Budock is the old parish church of Falmouth. (Registers, 1663.) St. Feock. — Chancel, nave with aisles, N. tran- sept, and S. porch. Enlarged in 1844, and almost entirely rebuilt in 1874; nothing but 15th cent, arcades are old work. Circular late Norm, font of Catacleuse stone elaborately carved after an un- usual design. Two-staged tower, chiefly 1 3th cent., stands on high bank about 40 yards to W. of church. (Registers, 168 1.) Forrabury (St. Symphorian). — Chancel, nave, N. aisle, S. transept, S. porch, and W. tower. Shame- fully maltreated both within and without during recent years. Mr. E. H. Sedding says that "the modern N. aisle is a model of ugliness." Lower part of S. wall of nave Norm. S. porch, c. 1 500, is original ; roofed with two large slabs of granite. Tower rebuilt in 1760. Circular Norm, font of Tintagel greenstone. Some old bench-ends, 15th and 16th cent., worked up in altar-table, credence, and pulpit. When visited by the present writer in the " sixties " of last century there was much Norm, and E.E. work in fabric, a good 15 th cent, chancel screen, and a fine number of bench-ends. (Registers, 17 10.) Fowey. — The fine church of St. Fimbar