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THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL 61 most of S. aisle was rebuilt. Tower long ago disappeared ; formerly 3 bells hung in a low shed. N. aisle, appropriated to Boconnoc House, old seat of Mohun family, retains much parclose screen-work. Well-carved altar-table inscribed, "Made by me, Sir Reynold Mohun, 1629"; pulpit of same date. Mural monument, 1637, to Penelope, daughter of Sir Reynold, "for a short time wife unto William Drew." Here is the upper part of old screen removed from Bradock. (Registers, 1709.) Bodmin (St. Petrock). — Largest church in county. Ground - plan forms a parallelogram 151 ft. by 65 ft. ; aisles extend almost level with chancel. Tower projects on N. side at junction of chancel and nave, and appears to have been formerly attached to N. transept of a cruciform Norm, church ; lower stages are Norm. ; restorers have given trefoil heads to small Norm, lights. With - its 15th cent, addition, tower has a height of 94 *!° ft. ; it was crowned with spire which reached 1 50 < ft., but this destroyed by lightning in 1699. JJ Most of building accounts of reconstruction of this - fine church in 15th cent, are extant; they extend^ from 1469 to 1 49 1. Arcades between aisles and nave and chancel are of 9 bays, and constructed -_' of St. Stephen stone. Windows, chiefly renewed ' on old lines, are of large proportions, and good n examples of advanced Perp. S. porch is vaulted " with good fan-tracery, and has two-storied chambers above it, gained by turret at N.W. angle. W. front