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CORNWALL striking externally than in the interior ; but its churchyard i and vicarage-garden have a wealth of subtropical vegetation. The build- ing is E.E. in general style and date, with portions of Dec. ; and it bears evidence of its two restorations (in 1857 and 1892). There is a curious northward inclination of the chancel, said to typify the position of the Saviour's head upon the cross. The Bolitho family have done much to beautify this church, and their monuments of Derbyshire felspar give a singularly rich effect to the interior. In this neighbourhood was dug up an earthen pot full of Roman coins, dating from 260 to 350; indeed, the whole district abounds in interesting antiquities. Gniuiislake is a large village in the parish of Calstock, close to the New Bridge over the Tamar. Guiiwalloe (6 m. S. of Helston) preserves the name of Gwinwaloe or Winwaloe, the Breton Guennole ; and if it be true that the same saint left his name to the Landevenech of Brittany, the Landewednack and Towed- nack of Cornwall, his name must certainly sometimes have been shortened to Winoc. Unless the saint had two names, there has been some confounding of persons ; but Gun- walloe is clear enough in its dedication to Winwaloe. In the thirteenth century we find the church spoken of as "ecclesia Sancti Wynwolay " ; later, the manor got corrupted to Wynnanton. Winwaloe appears to have been the son of a Welsh prince who had 118