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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 133 Passion, removed here from Bodmin in 1469. Rood-stairs in turret on N. side, and openings in arcades remain. Good screen erected in 1883, in which are included a traceried panel and several other portions of old screen. A few old bench-ends have been reused. Roofs contain some old timbers, several good bosses, and a series of small angels from which the braces spring. Elizabethan pulpit has panels carved in arabesque. Octagonal font good Perp. design, with quatrcfoils in panels. Fine three-staged buttressed tower is 70 ft. high ; newel turret rises 3 ft. above battlements. A good en- graved slate monument to Honor, wife of John Webber, 1601, in N. aisle; lady wears ruff and stiff petticoats ; below are small effigies of two boys and a girl. Another slate monument is to John Cavell, 1602. (Registers, 1564.) St. Keyne's church is not of much interest ; it consists of chancel, nave, N. aisle, S. porch, S. transept, and W. tower; restored and much rebuilt in 1868, and again in 1877. Tower and most of old work remaining is 15th cent., but there is a Norm, hood-mould with star ornament over S. doorway, and a Dec. two-light window at W. end of N. aisle. Plain octagonal granite font is Perp. (Registers, 1539.) Kilkhampton. — The fine church of St. James consists of chancel, nave, continuous aisles, S. porch, and W. tower. Excepting the S. doorway, which is a very good example of enriched Norm, of