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230 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL is of Edward I. date, and consists of two chamfered orders springing from corbels. 1 Very low massive tower is 14th cent., but battlements added when aisle and porch were built in 15th cent. Tower staircase on N. side is most unusual ; no newel, and steps, carried up in square flights, lead direct from N.W. angle of nave. Masonry of N. side of nave Norm.; shafts and base of font are of that period, but octagonal bowl is dated 1720. Two bench-ends show medallion profiles of bearded and moustached men with hats, and with names " James Trewhela, warden ; Master Matthew Trenwith, warden." E. bench of porch is a granite block 7 ft. long, bearing on face incised double cross, obviously the shaft of some upstanding cross. An early Norm., or possibly pre-Norm., altar slab of moor granite, with consecration crosses, was recently rescued from neglect in churchyard. (Registers, 1676.) Tregony, former borough and seaport, had church oi St. James, noted by Leland in 1533; small por- tion was standing in 1741. Leland also mentions chapel oi St. Anne in midst of town. Reformation irreverence brought about desecration of both ; the chapel was for some time used as a cloth hall, but in 1777 became ruinous. Inhabitants now use parish church of Cuby. Tremaine. — Church, or rather chapel, of St. Win- waloe — for Tremaine seems never to have attained to ecclesiastical independence, and is now a chapelry 1 See illustration, Arch.Jmtma!, 1861, p. 233.