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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 225 is a projection to cover rood-stairs. There is a cin- quefoil-headed piscina within the chancel. Two wall- paintings were uncovered at E. end of S. aisle during the restoration. One of much interest illustrates a legend of St. Roche, where a dog brings bread and an angel anoints his sores ; the other is a foliated design round a piscina. Both have been ingeniously protected by hinged wood covers. 1 Old ironwork on the S. door is noteworthy; it is late 13th or early 14th cent. date. A bad feature of restoration was the ejection of 7 memorial slate slabs now lying in churchyard; two oldest are dated 1576 and 1578. It ought to be mentioned that the various fragments of old moulded stones on S. of churchyard, stated by Mr. E. H. Sedding in his book on Cornish churches (p. 216) to be "salvage from an extensive restoration," are in reality fragments from the priory ruins. (Registers, 1 563 ; Churchwarden Accounts, 1480.) Tintagel. — The highly interesting church, jointly dedicated to Sts. Marcelliana and Mattriana, on a bleak cliff overlooking the sea, consists of chancel with small N. chapel, transepts, nave, N. and S. porches, and W. tower ; unhappily restored in 1 870-1, when old roofs and considerable store of 15th cent, bench- ends were swept away, levels altered, and other mischief effected. The solidity of the walls, how- ever, afforded no excuse for further interference, and they yield proof of erection of a church early 1 See Journal R.I.C., iv. 57 ; xv. 145.