3(> LYCHXOSCOPES IX CHURCHES IX THE WEST OF ENGLAND.

The base of the stouter pillar is an acutely-pointed pyramid upon a flat square, vanishing in the diagonals of the octagon. A similar respond occurs in the north transept. The rood-screen and loft originally' rested upon the N. side of the capital of this pillar, which is mutilated in conse- quence, and the pulpit now stands against its north side. This arrangement of the pulpit is general in the Lizard district. The original priest's door now forms the entrance into the modern vestry. The position of the " low window " at Grade, Cury, and Landcwednack, is the same as that of Mawgan, but the window itself is diff'erent in form ; those of Grade and Cury l)eing a small oblong opening, the former one foot nine inches by one foot four inches the sill being only one foot nine inches from the ground : the latter one foot by eleven inches, the sill being three feet four inches from the ground. At Landcwednack, the window has two lights, square-headed, two feet six inches by one foot four inches, sill, four feet three and a half inches from the ground. A large block of serpentine rock is fixed in the ground beneath the window, in a position convenient for a person standing but not kneeling at the window. At Wendron, the window is more like that of ]rawgan in form, though its position is difl'erent. At .St. Helen's Ilangleton, in Sussex, is a south low window, remarkably like that of Wendron, and provided with grooves and 1)olt-holes for an external shutter. The former (Hangle- ton) is five feet by thirteen inches, the latter, three feet nine inches by eleven. Each lias a pointed trefoil head of Earl}^- decorated character. Of the low windows of the Lizard district, the oidy one which is partly blocked at the foot is Grade ; Mawgan is entirely so, whilst the others remain o[)en and are still glazed. J lore two interesting questions arise, viz. the date of these windows and tlirir use. 1st. It can scarcely be doubted that they are very nc.'arly, if not strictly, conteinj)()ran{>ous ; foi", besides the exact siinilaiMty of their position and plan in four III' tlif ex. -in I pics, there is a coiTespondencc; also in some of tin; details, foi' instanc( tiie use of an octagonal j)illai" of fiv(! and a half inches (»n each face. Next, the arrangenuMit is of so clumsy and unsightly a <-li;iivic.tei- llial, it is im]"»ossible to iiuagin(; it to have been part of the oiiginrd pl.'in of any oj t liese churches.