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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 143 Panels of base have all originally borne painted saints ; a few are left on S. side, namely, Our Lord in Glory, an attractive one of Henry VI., the four Latin Doctors, three female saints, and three sibyls ; the majority of these have been repainted at later date. 1 Rood-stairs are gained from transept ; upper door- way is of very small dimensions, and so too is open- ing in arcade to gain top of S. chapel screen. Much old carving remains in wagon roofs of church and porch. A good Elizabethan pulpit, with a double- headed eagle in centre panel. In transept is a late Elizabethan altar-table. There are Jacobean poppy- head bench-ends in chapel, c. 1620, bearing quartered blazoned arms of Grylls and Bere, and chancel stalls of same date. Against S. wall of chancel is the most remarkable elaborately carved classical monument of wood in any English church. It is about 14 ft. high, 54 in. in width, and projects 28 in. from wall. The monument, profusely adorned with heraldry, is to Charles Grylls, councillor-at-law, 161 1, and Agnes, his wife, 1607 ; it was erected by their son John in 1623. On a stage in centre are small, almost doll- like kneeling effigies of Charles and Agnes, whilst on brackets in background are figures of their chaplain and steward ; below are representations of their4sons and 5 daughters. When chancel was rebuilt in 172 1, Richard Grylls, grandson of erector of monument, 1 This screen was admirably restored in 1905 by Mr. T. Rogers Kitsell, of Plymouth. See Builder, 11 November, 1905, with double plate.