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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 163 Also a memorial to Temperance, wife of William Kendall, 1579. In S. wall of church, between porch and tower, are two plain exterior sepulchral recesses. They have never contained effigies within memory, but a steady tradition has been maintained that here were buried Robert de Cardinham and his wife, c. 1200. During the alterations of 1890 human bones were found beneath the slabs in each recess, but no trace of any kind of coffin. It is by no means impossible that tradition is right, and that these recesses were originally constructed for the great lord of this town and of Fowey, with his lady, when the church (then a rectory in their own control) was rebuilt in the new English style then coming into vogue, at their expense. Robert de Cardinham (or Cardinan) was by far the largest landowner in the county, and his lady was the wealthy heiress of FitzWilliam. We may be quite certain that these recesses are over graves of persons of importance and locally respected, for it is obvious that they are earlier than the wall- ing around them, and that they were carefully preserved when later church was built. (Regis- ters, 1609.) Ludgvan {St. Ludwan). — Chancel, nave, aisles, S. porch, and W. tower; almost entirely 15th cent, granite, but S. aisle a good deal earlier than N. aisle. Font Norm., with cable moulding. A 13th cent, window in N. wall of chancel. Tower of 3