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INTRODUCTION 31 Gennys, St. Issey, Jacobstow, St. Kew, Kilk- hampton, Lanteglos - by - Camelford, Linkinhorne, Ludgvan, St. Mabe, Morwenstow, Otterham, Pelynt, Perran-Arworthal, St. Perran-Uthnoe, North Tamer- ton, Temple, Trevalga, St. Wendron, and St. Winnow. There are cups without patens at St. Austell (2), Manaccan, Sancreed, and Towednack. There are patens without cups at St. Agnes, Devoran, Duloe, Merther, and Launceston St. Mary Magdalene. At Menheniot are two beautiful stoneware flagons, with collars and lids of silver, the one dated 1578, and the other 1581. At St. Mabyn is a standing cup surmounted by a statuette (1576) used as a chalice. At St. Mabe is a beautiful tazza of 1577, presented to the church about 1700. When the wave of church extension and re- building swept over Cornwall in the 15th cent., the buildings were almost invariably supplied with ROOFS of the coved wagon-head or cradle type, the timbers dividing the interior into square panels. The wall-plates and bosses are generally well carved, and often all the braces, ribs, and purlins. The mediaeval plan usually adopted (St. Ives is an ex- ception) was to use laths, plaster, and whitewash to fill up the panels, which had the effect of con- siderably lightening these unclerestoried buildings, and thus showing up the beauties of the carving. Unfortunately, the earlier restorers ejected these beautiful local roofs of carved oak, substituting, as at St. Minver, high-pitched roofs of pitch-pine.