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Updated: August 17, 2024
There is a very singular aumbry or alms-box, formed in an oak bench-end near the door. The rugged old building is finely placed, with a magnificent view over land and sea. But the ordinary visitor takes more notice of Grunwalloe, which is one of the most curiously situated churches in the kingdom, standing where the sea-spray sometimes makes a clean sweep over it.
The chimney was built of logs and clay, forming terraces. As if it was no longer possible for her to stay on the ground she darted from the bench-end to the lowest log, and stepped on up as fearlessly as a thing of air, until her head touched the roof. Monsieur Grignon played like mad, and the others clapped their hands.
There are some very good bench-end carvings, not all in their original position, and there is a Trenwith brass with the figure of St. Michael ludicrously restored. Many other objects of interest may be noted, both within and without the church, including a fifteenth-century cross in the churchyard, thrown down by the Puritans and re-erected. Historically, St.
"Where your reverence entertains the pretty nuns who come for absolution." "After that," said Brother Bartolomé, pointing a finger towards the altar and the poor shape dangling, "you might disdain small brutalities." The scoundrel leaned his back against a carved bench-end and nodded his head slowly. "Master friar, you shall have a hard death." "Possibly.
He landed at Zennor, and related his adventure, and those who heard it agreed that this must have been the lady who decoyed away the poor young man." But why poor? The connection may have been a happy one; the mermaid was evidently courteous in manners, though her representation on the Zennor bench-end is not exactly beautiful.
"I suppose now," he said abruptly, staring up at an arch connecting the choir-stalls with the southern transept, "this bit of Norman work will be as old as anything you have?" That it was Norman came as news to Parson Jack. He, too, stared up at it, resting a palm on a crumbling bench-end.
A small brass with the figures of a man and woman will be found at the W. end of the S. aisle, bearing date 1470. In addition to features already mentioned, note the unique E.E. arch at entrance of S. chapel, widened by Perp. builders for ritual purposes; old alms and muniment chests in N. chapel; old bench-end near W. doorway, from which the other woodwork has been copied.
Raymond stood up, and leaning against a bench-end, examined the thread of the screw between his fingers. "That is one way of looking at it, no doubt," he said slowly; "and I hope God will forgive me if I have put my own pride before His service.
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