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72 THE CHURCHES OF CORNWALL Queen Elizabeth at which time God tooke him to his mercye being the year of our Lord 1 567 " ; there are effigies of himself and wife, and various quartered arms. Also small mural effigies to his son Sir John Killigrew and wife, 1584, and other memorials to that family ; also a monument to Sir Nicholas Parker, 1619. (Registers, 1603.) St. Buryan. — The old collegiate church of Si. Buriana, originally founded by King Athelstan in 930, was re-dedicated in 1238 ; it consists of chancel, nave with continuous aisles, forming parallelogram <>o of 105 ft. by 43 ft., S. porch, and W. tower 90 ft. i[ high. Excepting remains of 2 Norm, arches on J N. side of chancel, present church is throughout £v late 15th cent. ; it is divided by arcades of 6 arches on each side. Considerable restoration in 1874, when most of the wagon roofs were renewed, but S. aisle retains much of the old carved intersecting timbers and wall- plates; up to then roofs were covered with stone slabs. Well-proportioned porch of surface granite is battlemented and has double buttresses; a stoup in the N.E. angle. The four- staged tower of similar granite is double buttressed ; the half-octagon stair turret rises to height of pinnacles ; over W. doorway a shield bearing IHS. The circular font, of sparkling Ludgvan granite, 26 in. in diameter and 42 in. high, is of early 14th cent, date; it has 3 shield-bearing angels round bowl, and a fourth shield with a Latin cross. Four old misericord stalls remain in