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ARCHITECTURE ECCLESIASTICAL 119 square or circular troughs were placed on the floor, and later were raised on pedestals; and not infrequently the pedestal is an addition, at a later date, to the basin of the font itself. Of the Early English period, the remains are scanty. St Anthony in Roseland is the most perfect example in Cornwall. Tympanum, Egloskerry Church Of the Middle Pointed, or Decorated period, are Padstow, St Columb Major, Sheviock, Lostwithiel where the very peculiar spire is singularly beautiful and foreign in character and portions in Lanteglos by Fowey, and St Ive near Liskeard. But, as in Devonshire, so in Cornwall, there was an outburst of church building in the Third Pointed or Per-