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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 199 S. porch, and 15th cent. W. tower. Rebuilt 1856-7, except tower. Small altar slab, discovered during rebuilding, now serves as credence table. Pulpit is partly constructed of fragments of old rood-screen. Font is Trans.-Norm., but much re- tooled. In gable of porch is an old stone, probably early 5th cent., bearing the Chi-Rho monogram in a circle; 1 it came to light in 1856. At same time a rude pillar stone was found in chancel foundations, with inscription CLOTUALI MOBRATH in two lines ; it now stands in S. of churchyard. 2 In churchyard there is also fine early granite cross, 5 ft. 10 in. high, with circular 4-holed head having 5 bosses ; 4 sides of the shafts ornamented with plaitwork, and on front is the Crucified Lord in tunic ; well described and fully illustrated in Langdon's Old Cornish Crosses ( 1 896), 3 89-39 1 . ( Registers, 1 560.) Philleigh (St. Felix). — Chancel with S. aisle of 3 bays, nave with S. aisle of 6 bays, N. transept, S. porch, and W. tower ; considerably restored and partly rebuilt in 1867. The long 15th cent. S. arcade is well moulded in moorland granite, piscina niche in E. respond. Octagonal arcaded bowl of font early 13th cent.; base modern. Two-staged tower late 13th cent. (Registers, 1733.) Pillaton. — Church of St. Odulph^ re-dedicated in 4- 1259, consists of chancel, nave, continuous N. aisle, ^ S. transept, S. porch, and W. tower; restored in • 1878. Transept, though it has later windows, , 1 See under St. Just-in-Penwith. " 2 Both these stones are illustrated and described in Vict. Co. "~ Hist, of Cornwall, vol. i. 419, pi. iii.