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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 137 care in 1877. The screen-work is 1905. (Regi- sters, 1555.) Landulph (St. Dilpe). — Chancel, nave, continu- ous aisles of 6 bays, S. porch, and W. tower. Restored in 1901. Excepting 14th cent, inner S. doorway, which has lower half of small draped figure in niche above, all the body of the church is of 15th cent, or early 16th cent, dates. All the windows are of three lights and Perp. Aisle arcades have octagonal piers. There is a 14th cent, piscina clumsily replaced in E. wall of chancel. Rood-loft stairs enclosed in a semi-octagonal projection of S. wall. Base of rood-screen remains across chancel and S. chapel; quatrefoils point to early 15th cent, date. At W. end of nave are 6 old carved benches, and fragments of others. Base of tower 14th cent., and upper part 15th ; turret of newel at N.E. angle - rises above rest of battlements. Against E. wall *- of S. aisle is a valuable and curious brass inscrip- tion recording burial of Theodore Paleologus, last * male descendant of " the Christian Emperors of " Greece." He died at Clifton, in this parish, in 1636. Above the inscription are the imperial arms of the Grecian Empire. In same aisle is marble table-tomb of Sir Nicholas Lower, of Clifton, 1635, and of his wife Elizabeth, 1636. Clifton pews, erected by Sir Nicholas in 1630, bear on panels coats of arms of Lower and of 20 other families ; above these seats are mural brasses with long genealogical inscriptions to knight and lady.