doorway, probably the sole relic of an earlier church, is in the Norman style, perhaps of the latter part of the eleventh or beginning of the twelfth century.

The nave, chancel, and transept appear to have been erected at the end of the fourteenth century.

The window in the transept is modern and filled with stained glass, as is also the chancel window.

The aisle, of fifteenth-century character, is connected with the nave by six four-centred arches. The piers are shafted at the angles, the space between each being a plain cavetto mould. The capitals are ornamented with a simple and angular kind of foliage. The east window of this aisle is the largest in the building, and has four lights with geometrical tracery; the splay of the arch internally is filled with quatrefoil ornamentation-a very rare feature.

At the junction of the chancel and transept a remarkable hagioscope is formed by a large chamfer of the angle, sup

ported by a detached shaft and arches to small responds of similar character. Externally the wall has been thickened out into two rounded projections, on the inner side of the smaller of which is a window, which may have been used as a "low

side window;" within, it is four feet seven inches above the

namentation similar to that on the font at St. Levan ".

The tower, of two stages, has battlements and pinnacles; it is constructed entirely of granite, which material must have been brought from a considerable distance. The mullions of the windows and the piers are also of granite.

There are three bells in the tower; the oldest is dated 1761, and has for its legend "Jesus de Nazareth Rex Judaeorum." Either Cury Church, or that of Menheniot, in East Cornwall (for both are named after St. Corantyne), was the first in which the Liturgy was read in English. Dr. Whitaker says it was Menheniot.

St. Cury Church is now in a state of good repair, the late incumbent, the Rev. Saltren Rogers, now Vicar of Gwennap, having done much to restore it to its original appearance.

In the south part of the churchyard is an ancient cross of granite, nine feet high, one of the tallest monolith crosses in, Cornwall.

A mile westward from Cury is the strangely-situated church of GUNWALLOE; the coast here is formed by sand hills, called towans, overgrown with herbage.

Those who have visited Gunwalloe Cove will agree with the

It is remarkable that precisely the same arrangement is common in Pembrokeshire, and one very similar to it in Somersetshire and other parts of the country.-ED.

GENT. MAG., April, 1862, p. 394.

See Blight's "Crosses, &c., in West Cornwall," p. 36.

Rev. C. A. Johns, who says, in his "Week at the Lizard," that it is "as delightful a spot in which to spend a long summer's day as can be well imagined." Though so lovely in summer, the winter storms that have blown on the coast have caused many a shipwreck here. Even now may be seen on the smooth beach of sand of the little adjoining cove of Poljew, portions of a ship which was driven on the coast but two or three months since: after striking on the rocks she broke in two. The crew remained on the fore part, and effected a landing on a huge isolated rock; thirteen, however, were washed off before aid could be rendered. It is a singular fact, -and shews by what a narrow chance lives may be lost or saved in such moments of extreme danger, when men their wit's end,"-that the whole crew might have been saved had they retreated to the after part of the ship; for when the storm abated articles perfectly dry were taken out of the cabin. This is but one instance of the many wrecks that have occurred near the spot. No apology is needed for alluding to these tales of misery, for the church itself is said to have been erected as a votive offering by one who here escaped from shipwreck. Where he had been miraculously rescued from the

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fury of the mighty deep, he vowed that he would build a chapel in which the sounds of prayer and praise to God should blend with the never-ceasing voice of those waves from which he had so narrowly escaped. So near to the sea is the church, that at times it is reached by the spray, and the waves have frequently broken away the walls of the churchyard.

There is no reason to doubt the truth of the above tradition. Another which attempts to account for the situation of the church will not, perhaps, be so readily credited. It is said that the builders intended to erect the church on higher ground, nearer the centre of the parish, at Hingey; but as fast as materials were brought to the place they were, by some mysterious agency, removed during the night to the present site. And here the church was built, it being found useless to contend with a supernatural power.

Dr. Whitaker tells us that St. Winwaloc, or Wynwallow, the patron of the church, was a Cornishman, and that he resided on this part of the coast as a hermit. Others state that he was of noble Welsh extraction, and became Abbot of Landeveneck in Bretagne, where he died in 529.

In the Taxation of Pope Nicholas IV. (A.D. 1288—1291), this church is referred to as "Ecclesia Sancti Wynwolay;" "that is," says Hals, absurdly, "the church of the holy, victorious, or conquering Wallo." In Wolsey's Inquisition, 1521, it is given in valuation and consolidation with Breage, Germoe, and Cury, by the name of the vicarage of Wynnanton. The manor of Wynnanton, or Winington, formerly claimed jurisdiction by sea and land over the whole parish.

Not only is the church most unusual in its situation, but it has the peculiar arrangement of a detached belfry, built on the solid rock against a steep ascent westward of the church. The rock forms a large portion of the west, north, and south walls. There is no tradition relating to the belfry; probably, however, funds were not available for the building of a tower to the church, and this was erected as a temporary receptacle for the bells.

Two of the bells appear to be of early date. One has this legend:

"Voce mea viva depello cuncta nociva."—"With my living voice I drive away all hurtful things."

On the middle bell:—

"Ichs ois plaudit ut me tam sepius audit."-Which may be read, "Jesus is praised by all as often as my voice is heard."

The same inscription occurs on a bell of the fourteenth century at the parish church of All Hallows, Ringmore, South Devon.

The third and latest bears the following:

"Eternis annis resonet campana Johannis."-"Let the bell of [St.] John resound in endless years."

The church is of the fifteenth century, and consists of a chancel, nave, north and south aisles, and a south porch. Internally it is coated with whitewash, and sadly requires restoration. Its dimensions are 54 ft. by 43 ft. The belfry is fourteen feet from the church, its north-east angle being in a line with the south-west angle of the south aisle.

The open oak roof of the south aisle is particularly good, and the ribs of the porch-roof appear to have been elaborately carved. The piers, resembling those at Cury, have capitals of different design; some consist simply of a sort of twisted or cable moulding.

The side windows of the north aisle are each of two ogeeheaded lights, the head filled with a quatrefoil.

The south aisle is lighted by six windows, five of which contain three round-headed lights; the west window has but two. Behind the south and north doors are panels with carved framework, containing very rude paintings of the Apostles, with their emblems,-St. John holding a chalice with a serpent issuing from it, St. James the Great with his staff and scrip, St. Matthew holding an axe, &c. This work originally formed the lower part of the rood

screen.

The font is of late character, but in the churchyard is the fragment of an older one of much superior design, and apparently of Norman date.

A tombstone in the churchyard has the following:

"We shall die all,

Shall die all wee;
Die all we shall,
All we shall die."

MULLION CHURCH is about half an hour's walk from Gunwalloe. Its plan is the same as that of Gunwalloe, except that the tower is joined to the west end of the nave. This tower is said to have been erected in the year 1500 at the