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INTRODUCTION 1 3 Gulval, and Sancreed are of the easier worked, sparkling granite from Ludgvan parish ; there are also one or two of comparatively modern date. The dark Catacleuse stone, sometimes mistaken for Purbeck, was used in the 13th cent, fonts of St. Feock, Fowey, Ladock, and Lamorran, and in the 15th cent, fonts of St. Breock, Padstow, and St. Merryn. The hard Tintagel Greenstone supplied the material for the fonts of Forrabury, Jacobstow, St. Germans, Minster, and St. Teath. At least five old fonts are of Polyphant stone, namely, those of South Petherwin, Pillaton, Blisland, Lawhitton, and St. Tudy. The Pentewan stone, from the cliffs near St. Austell, furnished the material for upwards of a score of Cornish fonts, including some of the finest examples, such as those of St. Austell, Bodmin, St. Columb Minor, Lostwithiel, and Luxu- lyan. Others were formed of local sandstone, like those of St. Endellion and St. Enodoc, and one or two of St. Stephen's stone. In the general construction of the churches, the Normans, as well as the builders of the next two centuries, made use for the most part of various local freestones, which were chiefly quarried in the E. of Ventergan in Warbstow parish, and at Tartdn Down in Landrake parish, and at Hicks Grey Mill and Polyphant in Lewannick parish ; in the S. Pentewan and St. Stephen, near St. Austell ; and in the W. Serpentine from the Lizard cliffs, and both kinds of elvan or porphyry.