MADRON CHAPEL.

By following down the brooklet from the Well, in a minute’s space we

came to the Chapel. In the southern wall may be noticed an opening for

letting the water from the Well-brook flow into a baptistry in the

South-western corner of the Chapel. Entering by a door-way, on the

northern side of the Chapel, we see that this simple font appears to

have been arched over, after the manner of the bee-hive huts, by one

row of stones projecting over the other. The table-slab of the altar

(which still remains at the east end) has a square pit, worked in the

centre to mark the place on which an image, or the monstrance, was

probably placed. There is a step to mark the division between the

little nave and the sacrarium, and remains of the stone seats which

were carried all round against the walls. A rare and beautiful little

plant, the Cornish Money-wort, may be found among stones beside the

Well-brook.

Stories and folk-lore of West Cornwall. Third Series · 第 32 / 99 题